Rainforest ecologist | Rain forest ecologist | Janalee Caldwell, rainforest ecologist | Rainforest ecologist Janalee Caldwell | Rain forest : a status report | Rainforest destruction | Brazilian rainforest : Santarém, Brazil, 1995
2001
Diamond, Judy
Introduces University of Oklahoma biologist Janalee Caldwell and her research on frogs of the Amazon Basin in South America. Includes materials and instructions for testing nuts for strength and fat content, observing a frog and studying its protective coloration, making paper models of rainforest trees and plants. Includes a game that shows how creatures in a Brazil nut tree community grow from egg to adult.
Show more [+] Less [-]CD-ROM contains captioned version of videocassette program showing Caldwell at work; biography of Caldwell with hypertext links to definitions of terms; movie: Rainforest destruction, showing loggers at work and explaining how natural resources are lost when the forest is destroyed; maps showing decline of rainforest; movie: Brazilian rainforest, Santarém, Brazil, 1995, showing Caldwell walking through the rainforest; descriptions of animals in the Brazil nut tree community; bibliographies on poison frogs, the Brazil nut tree community, women and minority scientists.
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