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| BIYL5950 | Population Ecology | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of BIOLOGY | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Lab work , Practical | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Bilal KUTRUP | | Co-Lecturer | Dr. Ufuk BULBUL | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to give the students the growth and structures of population, biological and environmental factors effect the population. Sampling methods ( random, stratified, re-capture, systematic) for determining the growth of the population and interaction among -between population |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | understand of the structures of the amphibian populations. | 4,5 | 2,3,5 | | PO - 2 : | aware of the biological and ecological factors effect the amphibians populations and ecosystem.
| 1,4,5 | 1,4,6 | | PO - 3 : | know how do sampling of populations.
| 1,2,3,4 | 2,4,5 | | PO - 4 : | check the structures of populations.
| 1,3,5 | 5,6 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Population and growth. Structures of populations. Sampling methods. Random, stratified, re-capture, systematic, interaction among -between populations |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction: Population systems and their components
What is population ecology?
| | | Week 2 | Models as analytical tools , Population system
| | | Week 3 | Estimation of population density and size.
Censusing a Whole Population
| | | Week 4 | Simple Random or Systematic Sampling
How Many Samples?
| | | Week 5 | Stratified Sampling
Capture-Recapture and Removal Methods
| | | Week 6 | Tree Types of Spatial Distribution
Random Distribution
| | | Week 7 | Statistical analysis of population dynamics.
Correlation between population density and various factors
| | | Week 8 | Correlation between factors | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Reproducing populations: exponential and logistic growth.
Exponential model
Logistic model
| | | Week 11 | Life-tables, k-values.
Age-dependent life-tables
Stage-dependent life-tables | | | Week 12 | Seminar
| | | Week 13 | Seminar | | | Week 14 | Seminar | | | Week 15 | Aplication of marck methods in the diffrent kinds of animals | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Lary and Rockwood, 2006 İntroduction to population ecology, Black well publications, USA | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 18/11/2018 | 1 | 30 | | Presentation | 11
12 | | 2
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| 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 10/01/2019 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 2 | 6 | 12 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 3 | 7 | 21 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 4 | 10 | 40 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 3 | 10 | 30 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Diğer 1 | 5 | 2 | 10 | | Diğer 2 | 5 | 2 | 10 | | Total work load | | | 225 |
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