Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
TAB-23-120SHRUB VEGETATIONElective126
Level of Course Unit
Second Cycle
Objectives of the Course
1. To increase the students’ knowledge levels about shrub vegetations 2. To create awareness that there was also important feed resources such as trees and shrubs in natural and semi-natural vegetations, besides conventional food sources (grass pasture, fodder crops and farm residues) 3. To create awareness that shrub species can resist to extreme ecological factors drought occurring in summer period 4. To create awareness that incorrect land use policy in shrub vegetations increased to the desertification risk and soil erosion in the available areas 5. To gain experience how shrub vegetation have an important role in terms of soil erosion prevention and the animal breeding 6. To create knowledge that management and rehabilitation techniques must be applied as in the grassland in shrub vegetations, too. 7. To produce practical methods and to gain skills for the problem solving 8. To create knowledge about grazing preferences and the growth patterns of shrub species 9. To improve their necessary levels of infrastructure in scientific studies.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Yrd. Doç. Dr. Süleyman TEMEL
Learning Outcomes
1Students gain the basic competencies related to the topic.
2Students gain the practicing skill related to the topic.
3Students dominate the terminology of the study field.
4Students gain the adequacy of thinking among other branches of science.
5Students create awareness the performed mistakes by comparing the current situation of shrub vegetations in our country and the world
6To create awareness how shrubs species was rich for the nutritional content of species in shrub vegetations
7Students gain the diagnosing skilful to species in meadows and ranges
8Students critically gain the thinking ability.
9Students find self-criticism opportunity.
Mode of Delivery
Daytime Class
Prerequisites and co-requisities
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
The course contents is create awareness that besides conventional food sources (grass pasture, fodder crops and farm residues), there was also important feed resources such as trees and shrubs in natural and semi-natural vegetations, that leaves and fruits of tree and shrub species played a role as the source of important nutrients for feeding goats, sheep, cattle, deer and wild animals, during the critical summer period in semi-arid and sub-humid environments, that these shrubs and trees growing in arid and semi-arid ecosystems are durable to extreme drought occurring in summer period owing to the strong root system and vigorous sprouts from the stump and the roots and therefore, play an important role in supplying the fodder for animals at the absence of grass-pasture. Also, other aim of course is to present the nutritional value of these and the important shrub species spreading in our country and world.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Deployed areas and classification, definition of shrub vegetations Discussion and question-answer about topics
2Deployed areas and classification, definition of shrub vegetations Discussion and question-answer about topics
3Common shrub species in our country and the world Discussion and question-answer about topics
4Grazing preferences by animal and importance for feeding animal of shrub vegetations Discussion and question-answer about topics
5Importance from the point of soil and water erosion of shrub vegetations Discussion and question-answer about topics
6Importance from the point of wild animals and alternative usage areas of shrub vegetations Discussion and question-answer about topics
7Management of shrub vegetations Discussion and question-answer about topics
8Quiz
9Field SurveyDiscussion and question-answer about topics
10Rehabilitation of shrub vegetations Discussion and question-answer about topics
11Nutritional contents of important species in shrub vegetations Discussion and question-answer about topics
12Yield parameter and cultivation of important species in shrub vegetations Discussion and question-answer about topics
13The growth patterns of species in shrub vegetations Discussion and question-answer about topics
14Shrub vegetations as organic production potential Discussion and question-answer about topics
15Comparison of conventional products and assessment of animal products grazing in shrub vegetations Discussion and question-answer about topics
16Final exam
Recommended or Required Reading
Text Book: 1. A Study on Determination of Fodder Values and Distribution of Shrub Species in Maquis in the District of Erdemli (Mersin), (Doctoral thesis), Erzurum. 2. Notes prepared and compiled from different sources. Suggested References: 1. Gökkuş A ve Koç, A, 2001. Mera ve Çayır Yönetimi. Atatürk Üniv. Ziraat Fak. Ders Yay. No: 228, Erzurum
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
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Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination11010
Final Examination11515
Makeup Examination11414
Attending Lectures14228
Practice224
Discussion14114
Question-Answer14114
Demonstration616
Field Work144
Project Preparation11616
Self Study14114
Individual Study for Mid term Examination11010
Individual Study for Final Examination11010
Homework21020
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)179
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