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  1. Flevoland Polders: A Managed Succession (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Shows how the hydrosere succession has been ‘managed’ in the Dutch polders to produce a variety of habitats and land types. Following exclosure from the sea, the shallow freshwater lakes and marshes that...

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  2. Ants and Acacias (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min.

    As an example of the mutualistic and obligate relationship between two different types of organism, shows the relationship between certain species of ant and swollen thorn acacias in Central America. In...

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  3. Axing of the Himalayas, The (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    The forests on the hill slopes of the Himalayas are disappearing and it is no longer possible for the hill people to find enough firewood or fodder for their animals. Discusses the conflict between...

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  4. Decomposition (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    What happens to the leaves which fall in an oak woodland? The decomposition of leaves, and the recycling of the mineral nutrients back to the trees, is a complex process carried out by millions of tiny...

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  5. Assault on the Sepik (1974 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 19 min.

    All species of pine trees are susceptible to attack by the wood wasp, ‘Sirex noctillio’. When Sirex was first discovered on the Australian mainland in 1961, the softwood plantations of Southern Australia...

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  6. Ecological Predictions (1993)

    Producer
    Andrew Law
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 25 minutes), £34.99

    Three case studies of statistical simulation in cases where it is not possible to carry out the experiment in the real world. On a nature reserve in Oxford, statistical simulation techniques are used to...

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  7. World of Buckminster Fuller, The (1971)

    Director
    Robert Snyder
    Subject
    Environmental science; Philosophy; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 80 minutes), £16.99

    Architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive...

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  8. Seals (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Stuart Carter
    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    The grey seal population on the Isle of May has greatly increased in recent years, reflecting a much larger population increase throughout the British Isles as a whole. Grey seals form part of a convenient...

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  9. Pine Beauty (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Aileen Llewellyn
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    A rare native moth, the Pine Beauty, suddenly reached pest proportions and caused devastating damage of pine forests in the north of Scotland. The outbreak was linked to the introduction of a new species of...

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  10. Food from the Rain Forest (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Agriculture; Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Deforested areas in the wet tropics have been farmed in a variety of ways with different ecological and economic consequences. The programme was filmed in south-east Mexico in an area that until recently was...

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