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SC/BIOL 4720

Environmental Contaminants: Impacts on Organisms and Ecosystems

3.0 credits

Fall 2022

Topics

  • Environmental contaminants
  • sources, transport and fate
  • toxic mechanisms
  • tolerance
  • ecological impacts
  • risk assessment
  • monitoring and regulation

Readings

  • No required textbook. Suggested: Walker et al., Principles of Ecotoxicology, 4th ed. (2012); Landis, Sofield and Yu, Introduction to Environmental Toxicology: Impacts of Chemicals upon Ecological Systems, 3rd ed. Lecture notes and selected papers on eClass.
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