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This programme was filmed at the Chihuahuan Desert field station at Mapimi in Northern Mexico in collaboration with members of the Instutute of Ecology (Mexico). It shows the main features of the d...esert environment and shows examples of the survival strategies adopted by local plants and animals. Ecologists are seen working in the field and in the laboratory on several animals including small rodents, lizards, grasshoppers and the nedemic giant Boston tortoise, Gophesus flavomarginatus, which is unique to this small area and is on the endangered list of world animals.
This programme was filmed at the Chihuahuan Desert field station at Mapimi in Northern Mexico in collaboration with members of the Instutute of Ecology (Mexico). It shows the main features of the d...esert environment and shows examples of the survival strategies adopted by local plants and animals. Ecologists are seen working in the field and in the laboratory on several animals including small rodents, lizards, grasshoppers and the nedemic giant Boston tortoise, Gophesus flavomarginatus, which is unique to this small area and is on the endangered list of world animals.
| Module code and title: | S326, Ecology |
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| Item code: | S326; 06 |
| First transmission date: | 1986 |
| Published: | 1986 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Tony Jolly |
| Contributors: | Exequiel Ezcurra; Jonathan W. Silvertown |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Bolson; Chihuahuan Desert; Gophesus flavomarginatus; Lizards; Mapimi Mexico; Plants; Rodents; Survival strategies; Tortoise |
| Subject terms: | Desert ecology |
| Master spool number: | HOU4581 |
| Production number: | FOUS310W |
| Videofinder number: | 1871 |
| Available to public: | no |
