Steve Backshall investigates what makes the Amazon so diverse, he looksat the nutrient poor nature of the rainforest and discusses the strategiesthat the life in the jungle employs to make the most of the little nutrientsavailable before the rain washes it away. The programme includeshumming birds, giant otters, leaf eaters, fungi and nutrient recyclers, giant river turtles and pygmy marmosets. Steve discovers that therelationship between the trees and a mycorrhizal fungus in the soil holdsthe key to the tree ability to grow in such a nutrient poor environment
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