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| BTM4008 | Biogeography of Seas and Oceans | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FISHERIES TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Abdulaziz GÜNEROĞLU | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The aim of the course is to teach the distribution of organisms living in world oceans and different coastal ecosystem |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Learn about distribution mechanisms of organisms on the world | 12,17 | | | LO - 2 : | Learn geographic distribution of biomes | 12,17 | | | LO - 3 : | distinguish properties of different costal ecosystem types | 12,17 | | | 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 | | |
| Climate zones in the world, the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, coastal ecosystems, rocky ecosystems, deep seas, coral reefs, life in the polar regions, mangrove forests, seagrass meadows, and the distribution of these systems in the world. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction to biogeography and history | | | Week 2 | Geological history of biogeographic distribution and spatial dispersal mechanism of organisms on the world | | | Week 3 | Climatic region on the world | | | Week 4 | Biom and biom type on the world | | | Week 5 | Ocean and their characteristics | | | Week 6 | Atlantic and Pacific oceans | | | Week 7 | Bioregion on the world ocean | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Coastal ecosystems | | | Week 10 | Rocky shore ecosystem, deep ocean, coral reefs | | | Week 11 | Life in polar region, mangrov forest | | | Week 12 | Sea grass and their distribution patern on the world | | | Week 13 | Large marine ecosystems | | | Week 14 | Characterization of large marine ecosystems | | | Week 15 | End of term review | | | Week 16 | End of term exam | | | |
| 1 | Alan R. Longhurst, 2006, Ecological Geography of the sea, academic Press, 398 sayfa | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | | | | | | | |
| 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 | 1 | 14 | 14 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 7 | 14 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 1 | 12 | 12 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 70 |
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