REN R 418 - Trace Elements in the Environment

3 units (fi 6)(FIRST, 3-0-3)

Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences

Abundance, distribution, behaviour, and geochemical cycling of trace elements in the environment, including micronutrients essential to plants and animals, and potentially toxic heavy metals; geochemical behaviour of trace elements in the hydrosphere-biosphere-atmosphere system and the relative importance of natural and anthropogenic contributions to the cycling of these elements.