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| ORM3016 | Forest Biodiversty İnventory | 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, Group study | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Hakkı YAVUZ | | Co-Lecturer | Prof.Dr. Hakkı YAVUZ | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To make biodiversity inventory |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Define biodiversity | 5,8 | 1,3,5 | | LO - 2 : | Notice that differences between plant biodiversity and animal biodiversty | 5,8 | 1,3,5 | | LO - 3 : | Identify the methods needed for plant biodiversity inventory | 5,8 | 1,3,5 | | LO - 4 : | Understand needed nonparametric sampling techniques must be used animal biodiversty inventory | 5,8 | 1,3,5 | | LO - 5 : | Make some statistical calculations used biodiversity inventory | 5,8 | 1,3,5 | | LO - 6 : | Analyze statistical results related to inventory | 5,8 | 1,3,5 | | LO - 7 : | Make biodiversity inventory planning | 5,8 | 1,3,5 | | 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 | | |
| Shannon index, Simpson Index, Camargo-evenness indekx, Pielou-regularity index, Species-Area Curves index, LLNS index |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | The Historical Development of Diversity | | | Week 2 | Biodiversity and Ecological Processes | | | Week 3 | Biodiverstiy Inventory | | | Week 4 | Diversity Measurement | | | Week 5 | Shannon Index o Diversity | | | Week 6 | Simpson Index of Diversity | | | Week 7 | Pielou Index of Nonrandomness | | | Week 8 | Cox Index of Clumbing | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Gadow Index of Neighbourhood Pattern | | | Week 11 | Stand Diversity Index | | | Week 12 | Vertical Evennes | | | Week 13 | Species Diversity and Species Composition | | | Week 14 | Presentation performance | | | Week 15 | The Effect of Canopy Trees on the Diversity of Subcanopy Trees Species | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Pielou,E.C, 1975; Ecological Diversity, Wiley Interscience, London | | | |
| 1 | Maqurran, A.E., 1988; Ecological Diversity and Its measurement, Croom Helm, London | | | 2 | Rosenzweig,M.Z., 1995;, Species Diversity in Space and Time, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge | | | 3 | Szaro,R.C.,and D.W Johnston, 1996; Biodiverstiy in Managed Landscapes: Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press, New York | | | 4 | World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC); 1992, Global Diversity:Status of the Earth's Living Resources, Chapman and Hall, New York | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 10/04/2016 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 02/06/2016 | 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 | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 2 | 10 | 20 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 4 | 8 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 1 | 6 | 6 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 6 | 12 | | Total work load | | | 75 |
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