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| ORML7421 | Monitoring Changes in Forest Ecosystems | 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 | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Uzay KARAHALİL | | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Mehmet MISIR | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To teach monitoring techniques or methods used in area, volüme and spatial changes in forested ecosystems as well as changes in biodiversity, forest health and carbon storage. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Students will be able to determine area, volume and spatial changes in forest ecosystems. | 2,3,10 | 1,4 | | PO - 2 : | Students will be able to determine changes in stand characteristics using permanent and temporary sample plot approaches. | 2,3,10 | 1 | | PO - 3 : | Students will be able to overcome basic techniques used to determine carbon sequestration changes in forest ecosystems. | 2,3,10 | 1 | | PO - 4 : | Students will be able to understand Level-1 and Level-2 programs being conducted presently in Turkey in forestry. | 2,3,10 | 1 | | PO - 5 : | Students will be able to monitor changes in biodiversity indexes. | 2,3,10 | 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 | | |
| This course aims to provide using techniques to determine changes in forest ecosystems in terms of area, volume and spatial; monitoring methods based on satellite images; basic approaches used in monitoring changes in carbon storage in forest ecosystems; monitoring biodiversity indexes; methods used in monitoring forest health; field survey methods used in determination of changes. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction, content of the course. | | | Week 2 | The importanca of monitoring forest ecosystems | | | Week 3 | The mothods of monitoring changes in area of forest ecosystems | | | Week 4 | The mothods of monitoring spatal changes in forest ecosystems | | | Week 5 | Determining changes in carbon storage. | | | Week 6 | Displaying sucessional temporal changes | | | Week 7 | Introducing Level-I program | | | Week 8 | Introducing Level-II program | | | Week 9 | Mid Term | | | Week 10 | Introducing biodiversity indexes. | | | Week 11 | Changes in biodiversity indexes. | | | Week 12 | Oral Exam | | | Week 13 | Introduction and discussion of various studies conducted in the world and in our country about changes in the monitoring of forest ecosystems. | | | Week 14 | Student presentations | | | Week 15 | An overview of the course and explaining the understood subjects | | | Week 16 | Final exam | | | |
| 1 | Eiden, G.; Kayadjanian, M.; Vidal, C. 2000. Capturing landscape structures: Tools From Land Cover to Landscape Diversity. Available from internet: http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/publi/landscape | | | |
| 1 | Buckland, ST., Magurran, A.E., Green, R.E. and R.M. Fewster, 2005. Monitoring change in biodiversity through composite indices, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 360 (2005), pp. 243?254. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 9
12 | 16/11/2021
21/12/2021 | 8 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 15/01/2022 | 4 | 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 | 13 | 39 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 4 | 12 | | Arasınav | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Uygulama | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Ödev | 10 | 4 | 40 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 4 | 2 | 8 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 4 | 1 | 4 | | Total work load | | | 109 |
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