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Planet Earth. Episode 10, Seasonal forests / narrator, David Attenborough ; producer, Mark Linfield ; a BBC/Discovery Channel/NHK co-production ; series producer, Alastair Fothergill.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history.
- Animals.
- Physical geography.
- Forests and forestry.
- Forest ecology.
- Earth (Planet).
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Nature television programs.
- Science television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (50 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- London : BBC Worldwide, 2006.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- The Taiga forest, on the edge of the Arctic, is a silent world of stunted conifers. The trees may be small but filming from the air reveals its true scale. A third of all trees on Earth grow here and during the short summer they produce enough oxygen to change the atmosphere. In California, General Sherman, a giant sequoia, is the largest living thing on the planet, ten times the size of a blue whale. The oldest organisms alive are bristlecone pines. At more than 4,000 years old they pre-date the pyramids. But the baobab forests of Madagascar are perhaps the strangest of all.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 18, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 1039688430
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