PLANT-INSECT INTERACTIONS  – ENT/BOT/ZOOL 473
3 credits; 3 lectures/wk; Spring semester, alternate (even-numbered) years. Co-instructed with Dr. Amy Trowbridge and Dr. Ken Keefover-Ring

Prerequisites:
One of the following: Bot/For/Zoo 460, Ent/Pl Path/For 500, Pl Path/Bot 505, Forestry 550, or Entom 450

Description:
Multiple ways in which arthropods exploit plants, plant traits that deter or augment insects, environmental mediation of these interactions, effects on population dynamics, community ecology and co-evolution, and implications to natural resource management, environmental quality, and sustainable development.

ECOTOXICOLOGY: TOXICANT EFFECTS ON ECOSYSTEMS  – ENT 632-634
1-credit modules; 3 lectures/wk; Fall semester, alternate (odd-numbered) years; cross-listed with Agronomy, Molec Env Tox and For & Wildl Ecol 632-634. Team-taught.

Prerequisites:
Two semesters introduction biology and one semester organic chemistry or consent of instructor.

Description:
Study of how toxicants mediate interactions between organisms and their biotic and abiotic environments. Addresses biochemical and physiological mechanisms of toxicity; defenses against toxicants; population, community, ecosystem and evolutionary ecotoxicology; socio-economic impacts and current research.