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    Mar 29, 2024  
2017-2018 Catalog: August 2017 Edition 
    
2017-2018 Catalog: August 2017 Edition [ARCHIVED]

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BIO 104 FIELD STUDIES: DESERT ECOSYSTEMS

1 Unit - 0.5 hour lecture, 1.5 hours lab
Transfers: CSU
Limitation: Students must be able to hike narrow desert trails and camp (tents, sleeping bags, cooking, limited showers)
Recommended Preparation: An introductory college-level biology course and WR 1  
This field course introduces students to interrelationships among plant/animal communities and physical environments that characterize desert habitats. Topics will include natural history, ecology and diversity of desert flora and fauna, and human impacts to desert ecosystems. Introductory lectures complement direct field observations and experiments, data collection and analysis. The course is taught primarily in the field. It is intended for both science majors and non-majors. Students are limited to taking four field study courses in life sciences (BIO 101 , BIO 102 , BIO 103 , BIO 104, BIO 105 , or BIO 109 ) for a maximum of 5 units. NR



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