Information
Code | BKP136 |
Name | Agricultural Ecology |
Term | 2022-2023 Academic Year |
Semester | 2. Semester |
Duration (T+A) | 2-0 (T-A) (17 Week) |
ECTS | 4 ECTS |
National Credit | 2 National Credit |
Teaching Language | Türkçe |
Level | Lisans Dersi |
Type | Normal |
Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
Catalog Information Coordinator | Prof. Dr. CELALEDDİN BARUTÇULAR |
Course Instructor |
Prof. Dr. CELALEDDİN BARUTÇULAR
(A Group)
(Ins. in Charge)
|
Course Goal / Objective
It is aimed to comprehend the relations between living and non-living things in nature and to gain awareness of ecosystem and sustainable life.
Course Content
Ecosystem concepts and principles; ecosystem definition and elements, ecosystem dynamics, productivity and measurement in ecosystems, natural and agro-ecosystems and food production systems and crop production. Effect of environmental factors at the level of primary producer (plants); basic principles in the response of plants to the environment, light-plant relations. temperature and plants; energy flow and plant temperature, heat-plant relations. Atmosphere and plants, water and plants, soil and plants, plants and other living things.
Course Precondition
Ne need
Resources
G.C. Daily, S. Alexander, P.R. Ehrlich, L. Goulder, J. Lubchenco, P.A. Matson, H.A. Mooney, S. Postel, S.H. Schneider, D. Tilman, G.M. Woodwell, "Ecosystem Services: Benefits Supplied to Human Societies by Natural Ecosystems", 2002, http://esa.sdsc.edu/daily.htm Joel E. Cohen, David Tilman, "Biosphere 2 and Biodiversity-The Lessons So Far", Science, Vol. 274, No. 5290, 15 Kasım 1996, s. 150-1151 (3) P. Raeburn, "Home wreckers", Popular Science, January, 2000 Ernst Haeckel, Alman biyolog "the comprehensive science of the relationship of the organism to the environment", 1866. Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming, Danimarkalı botanikçi ve ekolojinin kurucusu plant ecology (ders kitabı), 1895. Arthur Tansley, İngiliz ekolog, ecosystem kavramını ilk ortaya atan bilim adamıdır. 1935 Eugene Odum, Amerikalı biyolog ve ekolog "Fundamentals of Ekology" (ders kitabı), 1953.
Notes
general ecology on the web
Course Learning Outcomes
Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
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LO01 | Basic conception of agroecology and ecosystems is known. |
LO02 | The comment on ecosystem productivity is gained. |
LO03 | Differences between natural and agroecosytem is cognizable. |
LO04 | Basic structure of crop production is comprehended. |
LO05 | Environmental factors for crop production is comprehended |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
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PLO01 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Have sufficient theoretical knowledge and infrastructure in the Field of Basic Science and Basic Engineering and Plant Protection. | 2 |
PLO02 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Gains knowledge of the basic issues of Plant Protection, such as the biology, ecology, systematics, and control methods of diseases, pests and weeds that cause yield loss in cultivated crops. | |
PLO03 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | It provides the correct application by learning the methods of warfare, which are included in the discipline of Plant Protection, both in theory and in practice. By using the knowledge he has for the solution of plant protection problems, he/she conducts field studies, collects data, evaluates, reports and has the ability to use the most appropriate control method by modeling the modern design by prioritizing the protection and sustainability of natural resources. | |
PLO04 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | In the Plant Protection Area, it detects any factor that causes yield loss during plant cultivation or any environmental factor limiting plant cultivation based on the literature, and can develop solution suggestions by using all kinds of technological tools and equipment suitable for the Plant Protection area. | 3 |
PLO05 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | In the Plant Protection Area, for a problem encountered, he can set up a field trial alone, use a laboratory, and diagnose diseases, pests and weeds in the laboratory. Gains the ability to produce for research purposes, make analysis, evaluate the results, interpret, report and present them in writing and orally. | |
PLO06 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | n addition to carrying out individual studies on plant protection issues, she can also work in interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams, thus gaining professional ethical responsibility. | |
PLO07 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Finding, evaluating, understanding and transferring old and new information in the field of Plant Protection by using the necessary technologies, writing reports, consulting and being an expert, writing prescriptions for plant protection products used in the control of diseases, pests and weeds, making effective presentations, clear and understandable Have the ability to take and give instructions. | |
PLO08 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Lifelong learning, access to information, monitoring and monitoring of developments in science and technology in discipline-specific issues such as detection and diagnosis of diseases, pests and weeds, determination of the control method, eradication, selection of the plant protection product to be used, application method and time in Plant Protection. has the ability to constantly renew itself. | |
PLO09 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Have knowledge about the ethical principles of plant protection and interdisciplinary issues, professional and ethical responsibility, and laws and regulations used in engineering practices. | |
PLO10 | Yetkinlikler - Öğrenme Yetkinliği | Knowledge of practices in professional life, such as writing and managing projects in the field of Plant Protection, making risk analysis and deciding on the way of struggle; have knowledge about entrepreneurship, awareness about innovation, sustainable development. | |
PLO11 | Yetkinlikler - Öğrenme Yetkinliği | Knowledge of the effects of Plant Protection practices on health, environment and safety in universal and social dimensions and the problems of the age reflected in the field of Plant Protection, will have awareness of the legal consequences of Plant Protection solutions. | 3 |
Week Plan
Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
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1 | Introduction to agricultural ecology, its importance, relationship between basic sciences and its importance for environmental pollution. | Reading references | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
2 | Defination of ecosystem and its components. | Reading references | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
3 | Basic principle of the living ecosytem. | Reading references | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
4 | Food chain and food web energy pyramid | Reading references | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
5 | Productivity of ecosystem and valuation methods | Reading references | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
6 | Difference between natural ecosystem and agroecosystem | Reading references | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
7 | Food production systems | Reading references | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
8 | Mid-Term Exam | Reading references | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
9 | Basic principle of organismal response to environment. | Prepare for the exam | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
10 | Basic principle of organismal response to environment. | Reading references | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
11 | Sun as a environmental factor, sun light and its effects on crop production. | Reading references | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
12 | Light and crop production | Reading references | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
13 | Temperature and crop production | Reading references | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
14 | Atmosphere (oxygen, nitrogen, carbondioxide , other atmospheric gases, dust particle and smoke and crop production) and crop production. | Reading references | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
15 | Water and crop production, Soil (air, water, mineral nutrition, acidity and salinity) and crop production | Reading references | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
16 | Term Exams | Prepare for the exam | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
17 | Term Exams | Prepare for the exam | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
Student Workload - ECTS
Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Workload (Hour) |
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Course Related Works | |||
Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) | 14 | 2 | 28 |
Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 14 | 2 | 28 |
Assesment Related Works | |||
Homeworks, Projects, Others | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 8 | 8 |
Final Exam | 1 | 24 | 24 |
Total Workload (Hour) | 88 | ||
Total Workload / 25 (h) | 3,52 | ||
ECTS | 4 ECTS |