{"id":11,"date":"2012-09-05T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:33:19","slug":"course-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/nadouglas\/courses\/course-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Biodiversity Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Desert Biodiversity Course<\/h1>\n\n\n<div id=\"metaslider-id-247\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-112-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-247 ml-slider has-dots-nav ms-theme-default-base\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"New Slideshow\" data-height=\"300\" data-width=\"700\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_247\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_247\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; 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Click <a href=\"https:\/\/biology.ufl.edu\/immersion-semester-spring-2020\/previous-semester-of-immersion-spring-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and check out the\u00a0Spring 2018 Semester of Immersion page on the UF Biology Facebook!]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Desert Biodiversity Immersion course piloted in the Spring of 2016, venturing from Florida to the southwestern US, where we explored the vast landscapes and varied habitats while focusing on observing and identifying plants and animals endemic to high and low elevations of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts. 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