Foundations of Ecotoxicology

The teaching aims to provide students with the principles of ecotoxicology, giving basic information on the main environmental contaminants, the processes that regulate their distribution in ecosystems and their toxicity towards living organisms.

At the end of the teaching the student will be able to discriminate among the different types of contaminants, their fate in the environment and potential risk to ecosystems. The student will acquire the skills useful to plan intervention strategies to monitor contamination and / or to assess the toxicity of contaminants.