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Extreme environments : sand dunes, hot springs, and tundra /

How do life forms adapt to extreme terrestrial and aquatic environments? This program answers that question by examining plants and animals that call quartzite and gypsum sand dunes, phreatic caves, acidic geothermal springs, and alpine tundra home.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Films for the Humanities (Firm), New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Other Authors: Aydelott, Tim, Lynch, Michael A., Raney, Raymond
Format: Video VHS
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [2000]
Series:Way out west.
Subjects:
Sand dune ecology.
Hot spring ecology.
Tundra ecology.
Educational films.
Description
Summary:How do life forms adapt to extreme terrestrial and aquatic environments? This program answers that question by examining plants and animals that call quartzite and gypsum sand dunes, phreatic caves, acidic geothermal springs, and alpine tundra home.
Item Description:Produced at the Studios of the Distance Education Center of the University of New Mexico.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videocassette (27 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Format:VHS.
Production Credits:Executive producer/writer, Tim Aydelott ; directed by Michael A. Lynch, Tim Aydelott and Raymond Raney.