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ORM7401 | Stand Dynamics in High Mount. For. | 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. Zafer YÜCESAN | Co-Lecturer | None | Language of instruction | Turkish | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | The aim of the course: | The course aims to provide the students with a general knowledge of treeline and timberline, to enable them to understand the characteristics high mountain forests, to help them use their knowledge to understand the ecological factors on the forest formations of high mountain areas. |
Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | PO - 1 : | summarize the concept of high mountain forest | 1,7 | 5, | PO - 2 : | determine the stand structures of high mountain forests | 1,4 | 5, | PO - 3 : | summarize the stand dynamics of high mountain forests | 1,4,11 | 5, | PO - 4 : | make comment about the silvicultural treatments in high mountain forests | 2,3 | 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), PO : Learning Outcome | |
Conceptual outlines of the high mountain forests, functional structures, priority of the functional structures, differences between timberline, treeline and interior forest stand structures, even-aged and uneven-aged stand structures, primer and secondary forest structures, stand stability, stand value. |
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Course Syllabus | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | Week 1 | General information, alpin and subalpin borders in high mountain forests | | Week 2 | Formation and improvement in high mountain forests | | Week 3 | Functions of high mountain forests | | Week 4 | Ecological and silvicultural basis in high mountain forests | | Week 5 | Detecting stand structure | | Week 6 | Even-Aged and Uneven-Aged stand structure | | Week 7 | Calculation of stand value | | Week 8 | Determining stand stability | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | Week 10 | Determining natural regeneration and ecological factors | | Week 11 | Evaluations about stand diameter, height and age distribution characteristics | | Week 12 | Assessments about the stand structure by stand profiles | | Week 13 | Assessment of some results about the stand value | | Week 14 | Assessment of some results about the stand stability | | Week 15 | Assessment of the stand dynamics in Turkish high mountain forest areas | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | |
1 | Yücesan, Z., 2006, Çamlıhemşin-Fırtına Vadisi Yüksek Dağlık Alanlardaki Saf ve Karışık Ormanların Meşcere Dinamiklerinin Analizi, KTÜ Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Doktora Tezi, Trabzon. | | |
1 | Çolak, A.H., Pitterle, A., 1999, Yüksek Dağ Silvikültürü, OGEM-VAK yayınları, ISBN: 975-93943-0-8,İstanbul. | | |
Method of Assessment | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | Presentation | 14 | 31/12/2021 | 1 | 30 | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 15 | 07/01/2022 | | 20 | End-of-term exam | 16 | 14/01/2022 | 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 | 3 | 14 | 42 | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 5 | 14 | 70 | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 7 | 42 | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | Ödev | 2 | 14 | 28 | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 6 | 7 | 42 | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Total work load | | | 227 |
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