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Course Name	Turkish	Deniz Ekolojisi
	English	Marine Ecology
Course Code	GMI 315	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	3	3	3	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Ata Bilgili
Course Objectives		1. To teach the ecological classification of marine environments. 2. To teach the fundamentals of ecology in a marine setting. 3. To provide insight on how ecological principles should be used in environmental protection.
Course Description		Marine environment in general. Currents, waves and coastal processes. Life in the pelagic and benthic zones. Estuaries, wetlands and intertidal zones. Ecological principles and notions; ecosystems, habitat, biodiversity, native species. Population and community dynamics; reproduction strategies, birth and death rates, age distributions. Population dynamics; dispersion, migration and invasion. Resources, profit and competition, food chains. Resources, profit and competition; predator-prey relationship. Plankton dynamics. Fisheries ecology. Larval ecology. Conservation; factors that affect marine biodiversity. Conservation; anthropogenic factors. Conservation; climate change, overexploitation of resources, sustainability.
Course Outcomes		Students who pass this course; I. Classify marine environments and know the factors that affect the ecological balance. II. Acquire general knowledge on ecological principles and notions. III. Resolve population and community dynamics. IV. Acquire knowledge on the notions of resource, profit and competition and know their interactions. V. Know basic information on plankton, larval and fisheries ecology. VI. Know the generals of how ecological principles need to be used in conservation.
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Textbook		Michel J. Kaiser, Marine Ecology: Processes, Systems and Impacts, Oxford University Press, 2012. 3. Tait, R.V. and Dipper, F.A., Elements of Marine Ecology, 4th ed., Elsevier, 1998
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