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| ORM3018 | Integrated Pest Management | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FOREST ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | Prof.Dr.Ertuğrul BİLGİLİ | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To develop a strategic plan for the management of target forest pests. To present a balanced overview of environmentally safe and ecologically sound approaches applied to commonly used practices in insect pest management. To provide a critical appraisal of the theory and practice of key methods of integrated pest management. To emphasize some details of pest ecology and of forest ecology and management matter in the application of IPM. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | understand the major forest pest problems, their recognition and underlying causes; control methods, application objectives and their effective integration; | 3,4,5 | | | LO - 2 : | learn the ecological and management principles of pest control; economic and environmental costs of control methods and their evaluation | 3,4,5 | | | LO - 3 : | evaluate the research techniques, experimental design and statistics, modeling, sampling, taxonomic keys, bioassays, pesticide application, field safety, mass trapping | 3,4,5 | | | LO - 4 : | gain management and communication skills, including problem definition, project design, decision processes, teamwork, written and oral reports, scientific publications
| 3,4,5 | | | LO - 5 : | learn analyze and solve pest management- based problems using an integrated, multidisciplinary approach, applying professional judgments to balance costs, benefits, safety and social and environmental impact.
| 3,4,5 | | | 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), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Forests and pest management, Quarantine treatments, Pest ecology and risk assessment, Outbreak history, Forest composition and structure, Site and environmental factors, The role of silviculture, Mapping the distribution and intensity of damage, Sampling populations, Mechanical, chemical, biological and microbial control, Mass-trapping, Population manipulation, Integrated pest management, Measuring the economic effects of pest damage, Impact on forests and forest ecosystems, Harvesting, recreation and biodiversity, Ecological approaches and sustainability, Forest management plans and IPM, Certification, conservation and multiple-use forests, Climate change and forests. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Impact of insects in forest landscapes: Insect populations in relation to environmental change in forests of temperate Europe, Changing relationships among biodiversity, management, and biodiversity in managed and unmanaged forests, Implications for forest health management | | | Week 2 | Forests and pest management: Natural and managed forests, Pests and pathogens in natural and managed forests, Management and exploitation of natural and semi-natural forests, Forests and the management of pests and pathogens | | | Week 3 | Insect sampling in forest ecosystems: Sampling theory and practice, Sampling methods for forest understory vegetation, Sampling insects from trees: shoots, branches, and trunks, Techniques and methods for sampling canopy insects | | | Week 4 | Sampling, monitoring and forecasting: Sample independence and interactions, Population estimates, Development and growth, Survival and mortality, Monitoring strategies and objectives, Forecasting, Action thresholds, Temperature and physiological time | | | Week 5 | Ecological Control of Insects: Economic injury level, Pest population dynamics, Species diversity and stability, Open and closed ecosystems, Implementation of ecologically-based IPM, Developing an IPM system | | | Week 6 | Plant health: International movement of pests and pathogens, The ecology of invasions, Plant health in practice, Quarantine pests, Quarantine material, Pest Risk Analysis, Certification and inspection, Quarantine treatments, Managing introduced pests | | | Week 7 | Risk, monitoring and prediction: Pest ecology and risk assessment, Outbreak history, Forest composition and structure, Site and environmental factors, Monitoring and prediction, Mapping the distribution and intensity of damage, Sampling populations, Spread of pests and pathogens, Phenology and development | | | Week 8 | The role of silviculture: Thinning and pruning, Microclimate, resources and biotic interactions, Tree density, growth rate and vigour, Species composition, Felling and post-harvest, Salvage and long-term storage, Forest fires | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Resistance to attack by pests and pathogens: Defense and defense theory, Resistance and its expression, Resistance mechanisms, Induced resistance, Tolerance, Integrated resistance, Environmental effects, Measuring resistance, Tree resistance and pest management, Resistance management, Cultural practices, Tree traps | | | Week 11 | Chemical control: Different groups of insecticides, General concept on insecticide use and environmental impacts, Ecological principles involved in judicious insecticide use, Determining forest pest thresholds for economic damage, Cultural inputs into minimizing insect pest attack, Conclusion on the ecological and economic aspects of insecticide use | | | Week 12 | Biological control: History of biological control, Biological control-its role in IPM, Augmentation and conservation, Classical biological control, Theory and practice in selection and release of natural enemies, Selection of appropriate biocontrol agent, Quarantine and rearing, Release, Evaluation and monitoring, Risk and regulation, Case studies in classical biological control, Economic aspects | | | Week 13 | 13. Microbial control: Characteristics and ecology of microbial agents, Bacillus thuringiensis, Viruses, Nematodes, Fungi, Experimental and operational use, Registration and environmental impact, Registration and commercial availability, Non-target effects in the environment, Developments in the use of microbial control | | | Week 14 | 14 Parabiological control agents: Semiochemicals, Mating-disruption, Mass-trapping, Development of operational programmes for mass-trapping, Case studies in mass-trapping, Population manipulation, Aggregation pheromones, Sterile insect release, Insect growth regulators, Limitations and risks associated with the various biological control | | | Week 15 | Integrated pest management: The economics of control, Measuring the economic effects of pest damage, Impact on forests and forest ecosystems, Growth loss and mortality, Effects on timber quality, Home and export markets, Stand composition and ecosystem effects, IPM in practice, Future developments in pest management, Certification, conservation and multiple-use forests, Climate change | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Orman Zararlılarının Yönetimi Ders Notları | | | |
| 1 | Wainhouse, D., 2005. Ecological Methods in Forest Pest Management. Oxford University Pres, 228. | | | 2 | Rechcigl, J. E. and Rechcigl, N. A., 2000. Insect Pest Management: Techniques for Environmental Protection. Lewis Publishers, New York. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 05/04/2019 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 31/05/2019 | 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 | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 12 | 36 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 8 | 16 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 2 | 13 | 26 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 2 | 6 | 12 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 120 |
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