Module overview
To understand the impact of human activity on wildlife it is essential to understand how pollutants released into the environment affect individual organisms, populations, communities and entire ecosystems. During this module the students will study the molecular, cellular, and physiological effects of common inorganic and organic pollutants and gain experience of a range of laboratory-based toxicity tests. Ecotoxicology is a highly interdisciplinary subject and will build upon the environmental science, ecology, animal physiology, molecular and cellular biology and conservation biology studied in previous years.