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What is photosynthesis, and why does Sir David Attenborough describe it as 'the very basis of life?'. This album explains how the balance of sunlight, water and nutrients are fundamental to the process and how this balance acts to regulate individual ecosystems. But photosynthesis is only part of t…

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Ecosystems: the carbon cycle

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2009 0:54


A short introduction to this album

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Transcript -- Ecosystems: the carbon cycle

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2009


Transcript -- A short introduction to this album

community recycling energy transfer sun habitat species variables attenborough biome oikos global-warming
How plants make food

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2009 7:44


The influence of differing levels of light, water, CO2 and nutrients on plant photosynthesis around the world

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Transcript -- How plants make food

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2009


Transcript -- The influence of differing levels of light, water, CO2 and nutrients on plant photosynthesis around the world

tropical adaptation leaf oxygen co2 rainforest equator chlorophyll temperate diurnal photo-respiration
Recycling carbon

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2009 3:07


How carbon is returned to the atmosphere through decomposition of organic matter

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Transcript -- Recycling carbon

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2009


Transcript -- How carbon is returned to the atmosphere through decomposition of organic matter

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The peatbog problem

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2009 6:58


Why peatbogs are crucial carbon containers, and how atmospheric methane is measured

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Transcript -- The peatbog problem

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2009


Transcript -- Why peatbogs are crucial carbon containers, and how atmospheric methane is measured

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