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| ORM5640 | Plant-Soil-Water Relations Inforestry | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FOREST ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Bülent TURGUT | | Co-Lecturer | Asist. Prof. Dr. Murat YILMAZ | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To enable students to understand the relationships among plant-soil-water. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | It is learned importance and using areas of water. Students will be able to learn the characteristics of water | 1,7,8,11 | 1, 4 | | PO - 2 : | learn the relations between the retaining of water in soil and soil water movement | 1,2,3,4,8,9,10,11 | 1, 4 | | PO - 3 : | and evaluate water economy and some processes related to water (interception, evaporation, transpiration, runoff, etc.) | 3,4,6,10 | 1, 4 | | 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 | | |
| Water be found in world and improtance, structure of water and physicoshmic features, being held or caught at water in the soil and relationship of soil moisture, hold capacity energy of soil and soil features, underground water and kinds of soil waters, to appear of soil hold capacity methods, water movement in the soil, water balance, relationship soil water-plant. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Availability of water in nature and its importance | | | Week 2 | Structure and physicochemical properties of water | | | Week 3 | Water retention in soil | | | Week 4 | Soil water energy relations | | | Week 5 | The relationships between soil properties and water retention energy | | | Week 6 | Types of underground water and soil water | | | Week 7 | Water types according to water retention energy and accmulating style in soil | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Soil water estimation methods | | | Week 10 | Water movement in soil | | | Week 11 | Quantitative and qualitative introduction of processes providing water movement in soil | | | Week 12 | Student presentation, Soil water types in terms of introduction of water economy and for the benefit of plants | | | Week 13 | Water economy | | | Week 14 | Basic approaches regarding estimation of water ecomony | | | Week 15 | Hydrological data or processes constituting of outcomes of water economy, The importance and the evaluation of Soil water - Plant relations in terms of forestry | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Çepel, N., 1993, Bitki-Toprak-Su İlişkileri, İ.Ü. Film ve Basım Merkezi, İ.Ü. yay.no. 3794, enst. yay. no. 5, İstanbul | | | |
| 1 | Çepel, N., 1996. Orman Topraklarının Karakteristikleri,Toprak İlmi (Toprakların Oluşumu, Özellikleri ve Ekolojik Bakımdan Değerlendirilmesi), İ.Ü. Yayınları Yayın No: 3995, O.F. Yayın No: 438, İ.Ü. Basımevi ve Film Merkezi, İstanbul. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 09/11/2017 | 1,5 | 30 | | Presentation | 12 | 21/12/2017 | 1 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 15 | 11/01/2018 | 1,5 | 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 | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 7 | 14 | 98 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 12 | 2 | 24 | | Arasınav | 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 15 | 2 | 30 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 | | Total work load | | | 197 |
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