Nature's microworlds. Great Barrier Reef / produced by Doug Mackay-Hope.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Mackay-Hope, Doug., Producer.

Backshall, Stephen., Narrator.

British Broadcasting Corporation., Production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Australia--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.).

Natural history.

Biotic communities--Australia--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.).

Biotic communities.

Coral reef ecology.

Habitat (Ecology).

Predation (Biology).

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (32 min.)

Place of Publication:

London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef on the planet. Steve Backshallnarrates an investigation into not only how it got so big, but also, howthe reef survives on the Australian coast at all. The Great Barrier Reef'simmense size is revealed as a mosaic of environments not just the hugecoral reef but sea grass meadows and island habitats as well. However,scale isn't the only success of this Microworld. The reef exists in nutrientpoor waters, on the face of it too poor to support all this life so how has this amazing Microworld come about in the first place? Steve reveals theunique relationship between the coral and an alga, which is the key tothis entire ecosystem.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 21, 2014).

OCLC:

904565680