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	The Private Life of Plants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Private Life of Plants (1995) is a six-part BBC television series presented by David Attenborough, on the growth, movement, reproduction and survival of plants around the world.
		As Attenborough explains in the first part, plants live on a different time scale, and even though their life is highly complex and often surprising, most of it is invisible to us unless we show events that happen over months or even years within seconds.
		These plants have special adaptations to their environment -- the Arctic willow, for example, is a tree that grows horizontally in order to avoid the extreme Arctic winds, many other flowers accomplish the same by being very small.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Private_Life_of_Plants (695 words)

	The Private Life of Plants. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By using advanced timelapse photography, the plants are shown as complex and highly active organisms - growing, fighting, competing, breeding and struggling to survive.
		Cameras reveal how plants use every trick in the book in a bid to come out on top, from growing at different rates to courting and even capitalising on disaster, whether it be hurricanes, fires or being eaten by animals.
		Plants often rely on animals, fungi and each other for food, protection or a home - and they are not always grateful partners.
	www.bbcfactual.co.uk /private_life_of_plants.htm (423 words)

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		Plant Life makes sense of the bewildering diversity of plants by treating them not just as photosynthetic factories, but as living organisms that are the survivors of millions of years of evolutionary struggle.
		The second part investigates how the challenges of life in the water and on land have led to the evolution of the major taxonomic groups of the plants, and describes the key adaptations that have contributed to the success of each group.
		Plant Life is an essential elementary text for undergraduate students and should prove a breath of fresh air for jaded botanists who are accustomed to the traditional taxonomic grind through the plant kingdom.
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /~cgilib/bookxml.asp?isbn=0865427372 (636 words)

	Self-Defense in Plants. (from Life Sciences) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		(kingdom Plantae), multicellular, eukaryotic life form fundamentally characterized by (1) an almost exclusively photosynthetic mode of nutrition, in which the plant produces chemical energy (in the form of sugars) from water, minerals, and carbon dioxide with the aid of pigments and the radiant energy of the Sun, (2) essentially unlimited growth at localized regions of...
		The purple berries of the pokeweed and the red berries of the European bittersweet, or nightshade, are common offenders.
		Discussion with Sir David Attenborough, author of The Private Life of Plants, and John Pollard, professor of Plant Biology at the University of New Hampshire, with guest host Karen Hopkins on NPR's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday (Sept. 29, 1995).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-91836?tocId=91836 (835 words)

	The Private Life of Plants (1995)
		The Private Life Of Plants, however, delves not only into the essentials of their importance to the Earth, but also dispels the perception that these are dull, boring examples of life that operate in a benign way.
		Through the ingenious mysteries of nature, plants and especially their seeds have developed a range of motion that would be the envy of many a transportation engineer.
		For a plant this is not possible, so they have developed other means of fertilisation - pollen, to be transferred between the plants of the same species by a variety of means in order that seeds may be produced and the species propagated.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=3762&SID=2&PID=224767 (2197 words)

	Plants and their survival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Plants need four essential ingredients to survive: water, light, warmth and minerals.
		These simplest of plants have all four of the essentials for life in abundance: sunlight, nutrients, water and a suitable temperature.
		They form the basis of all life in the seas, and are an important food source for a great number of species.
	www.fuchsiashock.co.uk /fuchsiashockz/articles/nature/plants_and_their_survival.php (703 words)

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		In the Arctic, plants grow close to the ground, often on rocks, to stay out of the severe cold and wind.
		The great numbers of algae that thrive on the outer edges of the ocean are responsible for producing much of the oxygen that all organisms need to survive.
		For this reason, it is essential that we protect algae as well as other plants that continuously replenish the air with fresh oxygen.
	school.discovery.com /lessonplans/programs/plantsofthebiomes/qanda.rtf (608 words)

	Seed Dispersal
		Plants find many ways to disperse their seeds to give them the best chance of germinating and growing.
		The Bird Cage plant lives in California and it is a sphere shape that rolls along the ground.
		The Borneo Plant disperses its seeds by a miniature glider which the seeds are attached to and seeing the seeds are as light as a feather, the glider and seed can be carried for miles.
	www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au /seeds.htm (704 words)

	Lifesign Networked Moving Images for the Life Sciences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Plants on Mount Kenya roast in the midday sun and freeze every night.
		In this ground breaking series, David Attenborough reveals plants and their behaviour in a way not shown before.
		But some plants are parasites and bleed their neighbours dry.
	www.lifesign.ac.uk /public/catalogue?cat=Plants (670 words)

	CAP Book Review: The Private Life of Plants: A Natural History of Plant Behaviour
		It surveys some of the ingenious ways in which plants enlist the witting or unwitting aid of animals and birds for transportation, by producing attractive fruits for example.
		In some cases, the plant may be completely dependent on one species of insect for pollination.
		At the equator on Mount Kenya, plants have to survive diurnal swings between extreme cold and heat.
	www.scirpus.ca /cap/reviews/review16.htm (1493 words)

	Dr. Judy Parrish - Courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The purpose of this course is to understand the vital role plants play in the environment as sources of oxygen, energy, medicines, and other products, and of the complex and diverse ways plants solve problems of life.
		Gain an appreciation for the unity of life, and the similar processes organisms use to acquire energy and nutrients, respond to the environment, transport and recycle materials, and reproduce.
		Emphasis will be on contributions of plants to human societies, but plant's interactions with one another and with other animals will also be included.
	faculty.millikin.edu /~jparrish.nsm.faculty.mu/courses.html (1493 words)

	Attenborough, D.: The Private Life of Plants: A Natural History of Plant Behaviour.
		With their extraordinary sensibility, plants compete endlessly for survival and interact with animals and insects: they can see, count, communicate, adjust position, strike, and capture.
		Attenborough makes the plant world a vivid place for readers, who in this book can enjoy the tour at their own pace, taking in the lively descriptions and nearly 300 full-color photos showing plants in close detail.
		The author reveals to us the aspects of plants' lives that seem hidden from view, such as fighting, avoiding or exploiting predators or neighbors, and struggling to find food, increase their territories, reproduce themselves, and establish their place in the sun.
	pup.princeton.edu /titles/5702.html (402 words)

	Private life and character (from Pitt, William, The Younger) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		Roman author and administrator who left a collection of private letters of great literary charm, intimately illustrating public and private life in the heyday of the Roman Empire.
		The Roman author and administrator Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, known as Pliny the Younger, left a collection of private letters of great literary charm, intimately illustrating public and private life in the heyday of the Roman Empire.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-5743?tocId=5743 (819 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Private Life of Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There are plants in this book that this natural history reviewer and botany major never saw before, such as the Sumatran titan arum with its nine-foot-tall inflorescence and the equally elusive British ghost orchid, which regularly reappears after being declared extinct.
		Attenborough notes that plants "must grapple with much the same problems as animals, including ourselves," and describes these endeavors in chapters on traveling, feeding and growing, flowering, social struggle, living together, and surviving.
		The Private Life Of Plants shows that plants fight, avoid or exploit predators or neighbors, struggle to find food, increase their territories, reproduce themselves, and establish their place in the sun.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691006393?v=glance (1058 words)

	DVD.net : The Private Life of Plants - DVD Review
		It's out with the fauna and in with the flora, as he stalks all manner of wild trees and vegetables in all the continents of the world, from the giant redwoods of California to the microscopic fungi that live around, within and beneath just about everything we see.
		It's a fascinating six-part study of vegetable life, which shows us that evolution is able to provide plants with a superb 'intelligence' of their own and a fierce will to live, even if they lack a brain as we understand it.
		For many plants, 20 years pass as if they were a single day.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3388 (801 words)

	Flickr: Secret Life of Plants
		Although it is not directly about plants, the movie Rivers and Tides has a big helping of nature as art.
		it's called the private life of plants here in the UK (maybe so it doesn't get confused with a stevie wonder album called "secret life of plants"?) but, i agree, it is a wonderful documentary - i well reccomend it too.
		The Private Life of Plants and the Birds series are my faves and difficult to find to purchase except through the BBC which produces them.
	www.flickr.com /groups/topic/4804 (384 words)

	Book review: "The Private Life of Plants"
		But many plants, particularly flowering land plants, depend on insects, birds and small mammals to transport their reproductive cells from one individual to another, to complete the process of fertilization.
		But ultimately, all of these issues come down to life's basic function – which is to reproduce ourselves (which is, for most species, sex).
		Like his earlier books (which also accompanied PBS series) "The Living Planet," "Life on Earth" and "Trials of Life," "The Secret Life of Plants" is wonderfully illustrated with color photographs equal to anything in National Geographic.
	www.trageser.com /archive/books/bookreview-plants.html (384 words)

	Amazon.com: Video: Private Life of Plants (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As you watch the plants via time lapse you realise that they are not the passive, peaceful and pretty things we use or destroy at our whim.
		As you watch the plants via time lapse you realise that they are not the passive, peaceful and pretty things, that they have a life of their own where each and every plant has a struggle to survive.
		The private life of plants has remarkable photography and videoing skills so that you can follow a plant for several weeks and it is condensed into one minute to show you the different stages of a plants life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6304030851?v=glance (948 words)

	2ndsight 003 Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		They are able to react to the slightest touch and to estimate time with extraordinary precision.
		Plants are, in many ways, much more successful organisms than animals...they can thrive in places where no animal can exist for any length of time.
		The instrumentation consists of: celtic harp, hammered dulcimer, string quartet, wind trio and synthesisers.
	www.2ndsight.co.uk /records/2NDCD003/2NDCD003.html (139 words)

	The Private Life of Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the program and book, both titled The Private Life of Plants, Attenborough treks through rainforests, mountain ranges, deserts, beaches, and home gardens to show us things we might never have suspected about the vegetation that surrounds us.
		David Attenborough describes the interesting life of plants in a very interesting way, and that makes the book to my number one.
		He is telling us about the evolution and how it developed the plants, how it have given the spicies such spectacular behaviors, behaviors most of us didn't know about.
	mountainstatestech.com /bookstore/item_0691006393.html (669 words)

	Teacher's Store - The Private Life of Plants 5-Pack -- 760074
		Plants do a whole lot more than just sit and decorate bedrooms or schoolyards.
		See how diverse modes of propagation ensure plant survival by sending out seeds in the wind, on the water, and with jet propulsion.
		Then find out just how strong plants are when you travel from the coldest Arctic wastes to the driest deserts.
	shopping.discovery.com /stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10003&catalogId=10003&langId=-1&productId=20435&partnumber=760074 (317 words)

	Santas Area.com - Private Life of Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		lt;br /gt;As you watch the plants via time lapse you realise that they are not the passive, peaceful and pretty things, that they have a life of their own where each and every plant has a struggle to survive.
		lt;br /gt;The private life of plants has remarkable photography and videoing skills so that you can follow a plant for several weeks and it is condensed into one minute to show you the different stages of a plants life.
		If you want to find out about plants at home this is the only way to go for its vocabulary is easy for the whole family to understand therefore making it appropriate for everyone.
	www.santasarea.com /browseitems/video/santas_video_6304030851.html (357 words)

	EEMB 127 :: Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		You are required to choose an episode of The Private Life of Plants to view and then write a review of what you saw.
		Describe 3 or more examples of plants that were shown in the episode and explain how they fit the video's theme.
		The Private Life of Plants is on reserve in 2160 Kerr.
	mentor.lscf.ucsb.edu /course/summer/eemb127/syllabus.html (798 words)

	The Private Life of Plants by David Attenborough, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 1568952910
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	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/1568952910.html (582 words)

	The Private Life of Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Although I could never be bored watching "The Private Life of Plants" over and over, I bought the book on a sale table, not expecting much.
		I was, however, absorbed in it that evening, reading and poring over pictures of plants I'd never seen.
		Hanging from a bit of log was the 'skeleton' of a fungi that I would have never recognised, had I not stared at the picture in wonder the night before, as something simply extraordinary.
	www.duchs.com /isbn/0691006393 (93 words)

	Private Life Of Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With the usually entertaining tone of David Attenborough, The Private Life Of Plants makes Nature and the behaviour of Plants an instructive and almost cinematographic masterpiece.
		Create a pond in your own back garden and then bring it to life with a variety of fascinating wildlife.
		This guide provides basic guidelines that are simple to follow, from the initial design of the pond to maintaining it and keeping the wildlife in good condition.
	www.badgerland.co.uk /shops/videos_dvds/nature/attenborough/life_of_plants.html (459 words)

	Notherby's :: David Attenborough's The Private Life of Plants: Putting Down Roots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		David Attenborough's The Private Life of Plants: Plant Politics
		After watching this video for the third time I am still amazed at the amount and level of information contained on the most common garden weed, to the vast array of plantlife beneath the oceans waves.
		This combined with outstanding filming techniques, to give you a "plants eye view" of their world has made this documentary one of the most compelling and exciting video's this century.
	www.northerbys.com /store/6304030886/David_Attenborough_s_The_Private_Life_of_Plants_Putting_Down_Roots.html (129 words)

	The Private Life of Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Private Life of Plants Review: Although I could never be bored watching "The Private Life of Plants" over and over, I bought the book on a sale table, not expecting much.
		The Private Life of Plants Review: This book presents an overview of many areas of botany.
		As an aside, Attenborough is a British author, so some of his examples are of British or European plants that Americans may not be familiar with.
	www.textkit.com /0_0691006393.html (371 words)

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