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| ORM7330 | Ecological Wood Anatomy | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Third 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. Bedri SERDAR | | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Salih TERZİOĞLU | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To teach Gymnospermae and Angiospermae wood elements and wood structures. Ecological factors and their effects on wood elements. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | summarise the wood anatomy of Gymnospermae and Angiospermae and be able explain their structures.
| 2,3,4,11 | 1 | | PO - 2 : | understand the ecological factors and their effects on wood element | 2,3,4,11 | 1 | | PO - 3 : | explain usage of wood | 2,3,4,11 | 1 | | PO - 4 : | present before an audience the results and outcome of any exercise | 2,3,4,11 | 1 | | 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 | | |
| Anatomical features (vessel, fiber, tracheid lenght, number of vessel per mm2, rays and number of rays per mm. ) Ecological factors (climate, altitude, latitude, longitude etc. ) , life forms of woody taxa (tree, small tree, shrub, shrublet) and vegetation types (forest, hygrophylous, subalpine and alpine, stepe, dune) and their effects in wood traits, mesomorphy, vulnerability. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction of Wood Anatomy
| | | Week 2 | Wood identification, Comparative Wood anatomy, Systematical Wood Anatomy, Ecological Wood Anatomy
| | | Week 3 | Ecological Wood Anatomy Principles
| | | Week 4 | Wood Anatomy Features
| | | Week 5 | Laboratory
| | | Week 6 | Non Anatomical Factors
| | | Week 7 | Plant Height, Plant diameter, Plant Age,
| | | Week 8 | Laboratory | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam
| | | Week 10 | The effects of Altitute and Latitute
| | | Week 11 | Intraspecific variation (at the species level)
| | | Week 12 | Second Examination
| | | Week 13 | Interspecific variation (at the genus level)
| | | Week 14 | Interspecific variation (at the family level)
| | | Week 15 | Laboratory
| | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Carlquist, S. 1988, Comparative Wood Anatomy, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN3-540-18827-4 | | | |
| 1 | Serdar, B. 2003. Türkiye de Doğal olarak yetişen Salicaceae Familyası taksonlarının Ekolojik Odun Anatomisi, 2003,Doktora Tezi, KTÜ Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Trabzon | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | | 1 | 30 | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 12 | | 1 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | 2 | 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 | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 7 | 14 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Ödev | 4 | 6 | 24 | | Proje | 2 | 6 | 12 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 2 | 10 | 20 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Diğer 1 | 3 | 10 | 30 | | Total work load | | | 202 |
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