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This programme shows some important ecological features of a tropical evergreen rainforest in Mexico. It was filmed at Los Tuxtlas, South Veracruz, Mexico, at the forest reserve of the Institute of... Biology (University of Mexico) and features the work of some of their ecologists led by the Director, Professor Jose Sarukhan. Special attention is payed to the dynamics of forest recovery by looking at plant succession in natural gaps. Among other topics illustrated in the film are the impact of herbivory by ants and other insects, the mutual symbiosis of a colony of Azteca ants living in a Cecropia tree, the influence of forest regeneration of howler monkeys, white tailed deer and pecari, the diversity of bats and their role as pollinators and seed dispersal agents, the vertical stratification from the canopy to the forest soil of reptiles and amphibians and the mechanism of seed germination in gaps.
This programme shows some important ecological features of a tropical evergreen rainforest in Mexico. It was filmed at Los Tuxtlas, South Veracruz, Mexico, at the forest reserve of the Institute of... Biology (University of Mexico) and features the work of some of their ecologists led by the Director, Professor Jose Sarukhan. Special attention is payed to the dynamics of forest recovery by looking at plant succession in natural gaps. Among other topics illustrated in the film are the impact of herbivory by ants and other insects, the mutual symbiosis of a colony of Azteca ants living in a Cecropia tree, the influence of forest regeneration of howler monkeys, white tailed deer and pecari, the diversity of bats and their role as pollinators and seed dispersal agents, the vertical stratification from the canopy to the forest soil of reptiles and amphibians and the mechanism of seed germination in gaps.
| Module code and title: | S326, Ecology |
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| Item code: | S326; 18 |
| First transmission date: | 09-03-1986 |
| Published: | 1986 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
| Note: | There are several versions of 'Tropical Rain Forest', Spool HOU4580 and HOU458 in 1984.. A non-Tx version was created and used for Summer School 1984. A version S326/04 was created. This was used (on spool HOU5453) as S326/18 in 1986 (production FOUS426D) and Tx on 9-3-1986. |
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| Producer: | Tony Jolly |
| Contributors: | Jonathan W. Silvertown; Richard Vogt |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Azteca ants; Cecropia tree; Fauna diversity; Forest recovery; Herbivory; Institute of Biology UM; Mexico; Plant succession; Tropical evergreen rainforest; Vertical stratification |
| Master spool number: | HOU5453 |
| Production number: | FOUS426D |
| Videofinder number: | 1883 |
| Available to public: | no |
