The Adaptive Radiation of the Silversword Alliance

Year Published: 1982

Creator: BRITISH BROADCASTING CO-TV 630 FIFTH AVE NEW YORK NY 10020

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Produced by the BBC for the British Open University Demonstrates how study of the chromosomes of a species provides clues to the history of the plants in the silversword alliance, a species of relatively recent evolution which is grouped into three kinds of plants that grow only in the diverse and unstable habitats of the Hawaiian Islands. The plants show a wide range of forms and provide a remarkable example of adaptive radiation. From the Evolution series

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