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The aim of this programme is to aid students' understanding of biodiversity, structure and fuction of a tropical forest, and to advance three current ideas to explain how so many species of plants ...and animals can co-exist in such remarkable profusion. Filmed largely on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, it highlights the long term census of 250,000 trees in a 50 hectare plot at the centre of the island. BCI is the most studied tropical forest in the world and is administered by the Smithsonian Tropical Forest Institute.
The aim of this programme is to aid students' understanding of biodiversity, structure and fuction of a tropical forest, and to advance three current ideas to explain how so many species of plants ...and animals can co-exist in such remarkable profusion. Filmed largely on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, it highlights the long term census of 250,000 trees in a 50 hectare plot at the centre of the island. BCI is the most studied tropical forest in the world and is administered by the Smithsonian Tropical Forest Institute.
| Module code and title: | S328, Ecology |
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| Item code: | S328; 01 |
| First transmission date: | 1996 |
| Published: | 1996 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:10 |
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| Producer: | Tony Jolly |
| Contributors: | Steve Hubbell; Juliet Morris |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | BCI; Panama; Plant and animal diversity |
| Subject terms: | Biodiversity conservation--Tropics; Forest ecology--Panama--Barro Colorado Island; Barro Colorado Island (Panama) |
| Master spool number: | DOU8685 |
| Production number: | FOUS819A |
| Videofinder number: | 4962 |
| Available to public: | no |
