Prof. Veerle Jaspers
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Abstract: Humans and wildlife are continuously exposed to complex cocktails of persistent legacy chemicals and new/emerging chemicals that contaminate the environment. In addition, wildlife populations are exposed to both chemical mixtures and multiple environmental stressors in their environment, including habitat degradation, disturbance, climate change and emerging diseases. In this lecture, I will focus on the use of birds to study these multiple stressors in a natural environment and under controlled exposure scenarios. The use of birds in ecotoxicology studies has a long history and monitoring activities and research programs are widely spread around the globe. The use of birds of prey is especially advantageous because of their high trophic position and thus biomagnification of many contaminants. These species have, in general, shown to be quite sensitive to environmental disturbances and are therefore interesting to study the effects of multiple stressors and environmental interactions.
Host：Assistant Prof. Elvis Genbo Xu
Editorial Board Member
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Time：3:00pm June 30, 2022 (Beijing time)
Zoom ID: 816 9975 7155
Bilibili: 25002335
