Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE / BYL 761 - BİYOLOJİ(DOKTORA)

Code: BYL 761 Course Title: PLANT CONSERVATION BIOLOGY Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department BİYOLOJİ(DOKTORA)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer HALİL İBRAHİM OĞUZ (hioguz@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s) HALİL İBRAHİM OĞUZ,
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
Aims to inform and transfer the causes of conservation biology in plants, principles, implementation, forms of protection, organization, design, management, monitoring of conservation areas; the causes of plant diversity, importance in nature, value and threat factors in nature

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Know plant diversity, conservation information, ecological and economic importance. PO-
LO-2 Evaluate the investigation and identification of plant diversity PO-
LO-3 Recognize threat factors and endangered plant species in the land PO-
LO-4 Recognize climate change and alien species PO-
LO-5 Know species and plant communities and know the conservation methods PO-
LO-6 Recognize classification of protected areas, know role and existing protected areas PO-
LO-7 Learns about the establishment, monitoring and management of sites PO-
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Concepts related to plant protection, plant diversity and its causes, ecosystem diversity and key species, habitat degradation and effects on plants, IUCN criteria, endemic plants, population analysis, protection methods, ÖBAs
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Basic concepts, issues and ethics in protection lecture, question-answer
2 What is the variety of plants? the concepts of genre, rootstock, ecosystem diversity, key species and rootstock, measurement of diversity lecture, question-answer
3 areas of plant variety, research of areas, collection of plants, assignment and counting lecture, question-answer
4 the value of plant diversity, factors that threaten diversity (extinction patterns, extreme aggregation in nature) lecture, question-answer
5 habitat degradation, effects of global warming on plants, foreign plants and their effects lecture, question-answer
6 IUCN categories, application and endemic plants lecture, question-answer
7 mid-term exam
8 the protective tactics at the populations and species-level, environmental variables and their effects lecture, question-answer
9 population analysis methods, habitat and ecosystem monitoring lecture, question-answer
10 Priority areas in protection, ÖBAs (Special protection areas), creation and management of these areas lecture, question-answer
11 Biomedical Protection, In Situ and Ex Situ Methods (Botanical Gardens, Nature Conservation Areas, National Parks, etc.) lecture, question-answer
12 Multiple habitat use, effectiveness in conservation areas, urban and agricultural areas lecture, question-answer
13 Sustainability, national and international dimensions of protection lecture, question-answer
14 The importance of different aspects of the protection (moral, cultural, political, legal) lecture, question-answer
15 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Primack, R. B., Koruma Biyolojisi, 5th ed., Sinauer Assoc., ISBN 978-0-87893-637-3, 2010. Spellerberg, I.F., Concervation Biology, Longman Grpup Ltd., 1996. (Çeviri: Ali A. Dönmez, Emel O. Dönmez, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2012)
Required Course instruments and materials
Sohdi, N.S & Ehrlich, P.R., Conservation Biology for All, Oxford University Press, 2010. Primack, R. B., Essentials of Conservation Biology, 5th ed., Sinauer Assoc., ISBN 978-0-87893-637-3, 2010. Spellerberg, I.F., Concervation Biology, Longman Grpup Ltd., 1996.

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 2 30
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation 2 2 10
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project 2 2 10
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 2 50

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 0
       b) Search in internet/Library 0
       c) Performance Project 3 13 39
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 5 2 10
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 5 6 30
mid-term exam 2 1 2
Own study for final exam 11 5 55
final exam 2 1 2
0
0
Total work load; 180