Ecotoxicology & Ecological 

Risk Assessment

WB.INS-38

BIOLOG^® plate used to assess functional diversity of microbial communities

(photo R. Laskowski)

• Ecotoxicology - what exactly it is? Nutrients & xenobiotics

• Toxic chemicals, toxicity and defense

• Toxicity measures, biomarkers, general theory of stress, populations

• Ecotoxicological assays, genotypic plasticity, community ecotoxicology

• What exactly the ecotoxicological tests tell us?

• Stochastic processes in populations and effects of toxicants

• Planning ecotoxicological experiments for risk assessment

• Applied ecotoxicology: Ecological Risk Assessment

       Supplementary materials

1. Final exam, covering lectures, discussion classes and practicals (a number of short questions, with a maximum of 24 points; grading: <12 p. = 2.0; 12-14 p. = 3.0; 15-16 p. = 3.5; 17-19 p. = 4.0; 20-21 p. = 4.5; 22-24 p. = 5.0

2. Active participation in classes and passing all reports

3. Final grade is the rounded mean of the grades from the exam and the practicals