| Course Title | Code | Language | Type | Semester | L+U Hour | Credits | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insect Ecology and Epidemiology | BTK309 | Turkish | Compulsory | 5. Semester | 3 + 0 | 3.0 | 4.0 |
| Prerequisite Courses | |
| Course Level | Undergraduate |
| Mode of delivery | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator | Prof. Dr. Emine DEMİR ÖZDEN |
| Instructor(s) | Prof. Dr. Emine DEMİR ÖZDEN (Güz) |
| Goals | To provide an understanding of interactions between insects and their surrounding factors with the resulting effects on their populations. The students are expected to have the ability to use this understanding especially for pest control in agricultural ecosystems |
| Course Content | Abiotic and biotic factors underlying the distribution, abundance, and dynamics of insects. How to measure these factors, and how they affect insect population processes (population stability and pest outbreaks), interactions, and community structure, especially in agricultural ecosystems |
| # | Öğrenme Kazanımı |
| 1 | Learning the relationship between incests and their environment |
| 2 | Lerning factors influencing the diversity, distribution and abundance of insects environment |
| 3 | Learning structure and dynamics of population systems |
| 4 | learning population demography, sampling, life-tables, temperature-dependent development |
| 5 | learning predation, competition, dispersal, population stability and pest outbreaks |
| Week | Topics/Applications | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Week | Introduction of insect ecology, the subjets of insect ecology | |
| 2. Week | Branches of ecology: autoecolgy, population ecology and community ecology | |
| 3. Week | The ecosystem concept, elements and functions of ecosystems | |
| 4. Week | Factors influencing the diversity, distribution and abundance of insects environment carrying capacity | |
| 5. Week | Böceklerin çoğalmaları ve gelişmeleri üzerinde sıcaklığın etkisi | |
| 6. Week | The effects of the humidity and water on insects development | |
| 7. Week | Light, soil, atmospheric gases, gravity | |
| 8. Week | Midterm exam | |
| 10. Week | Population density, competition, resource sharing and niche | |
| 11. Week | Structure and dynamics of population systems, sampling, | |
| 12. Week | Population demography - life-tables | |
| 13. Week | Population demography - mortality factors, key factor analysis, density dependence analyses | |
| 14. Week | Population stability and pest outbreaks |
| No | Program Requirements | Level of Contribution | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | Skill of apply basic science and engineering knowledge and principles to Agricultural Engineering problems | ✔ | |||||
| 2 | Ability of recognize pathogens, pests, weeds and beneficial organisms frequently seen agricultural fields at microscopic and macroscopic level and able to determine level of damage/benefit together with widespread cases. | ✔ | |||||
| 3 | Having knowledge about the techniques in agricultural production process, identify the basic problems related to the process and the ability to use modern computational tools and techniques in solution of these problems | ✔ | |||||
| 4 | Skill of execute taking into account technical and scientific information defined by current proposals for solving the problems of crop protection, sustainable agriculture, the environment and human health and food safety | ✔ | |||||
| 5 | Disciplinary and interdisciplinary teamwork ability, to act independently required, have the initiative and creativity skills, ability of communicate acts express of ideas as verbally and written, clear and concise. | ✔ | |||||
| 6 | Skill of follow the current national and international problem | ✔ | |||||
| 7 | Recognize of importance of lifelong learning | ✔ | |||||
| 8 | Self-development skill following the developments in science and technology | ✔ | |||||
| 9 | Ability of awareness of professional ethics and quality systems in agriculture | ✔ | |||||
| 10 | Business ethics and responsibility | ✔ | |||||
| Program Requirements | DK1 | DK2 | DK3 | DK4 | DK5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PY1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| PY2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| PY3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| PY4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| PY5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| PY6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| PY7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| PY8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| PY9 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| PY10 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Ders Kitabı veya Notu | Ders Kitabı veya Ders Notu bulunmamaktadır. |
|---|---|
| Diğer Kaynaklar |
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| ECTS credits and course workload | Quantity | Duration (Hour) | Total Workload (Hour) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Sınavlar |
Midterm 1 | 1 | 25 | 25 |
| Final | 1 | 35 | 35 | |
| Classroom Activities | 14 | 3 | 42 | |
| Total Workload | 102 | |||
| *AKTS = (Total Workload) / 25,5 | ECTS Credit of the Course | 4.0 | ||
