Eliza Cohen, from Erika Edwards’ Plant Diversity course at Brown University (Biol 0430), talks about the history of ginkos.
Music by bitbasic. The animations were photographed at the Brown University Science Center. Thanks also to the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts.
Arisa Lohmeier, from Erika Edwards’ Plant Diversity course at Brown University (Biol 0430), describes our co-dependent relationship with corn.
Rebecca Haumann describes how some plants deal with drought by completely drying out.
This is the first in a series of episodes made as final projects in classes at Brown University in the fall of 2011. The classes were Plant Diversity (Biology 0430), taught by Erika Edwards, and Invertebrate Zoology (Biology 0410), taught by me.
This episode was made by Rebecca Haumann in Erika Edwards’ Plant Diversity course. The hand-drawn animations were photographed at the Brown University Science Center (http://brown.edu/academics/science-center/). It is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Here is a little plant that starts it’s life high up in the tree tops, where it can find more light than the dark understory of the rainforest. As it grows though, soon getting enough water becomes limiting factor, and the plant will drop a shoot to the ground.
Matt Ogburn, a graduate student in Erika Edwards’ lab at Brown University, describes this little plant, the strangler fig, and explains how it eventually grows to take over the whole host tree and strangle it to death.
Artwork and editing by Sophia Tintori. Original score by Amil Byleckie. Thanks to Jo Dery for use of her studio. Video released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.