Rebecca Haumann, from Erika Edwards' (http://www.brown.edu/Research/Edwards_Lab/index.php) Plant Diversity course at Brown University (Biol 0430), describes how different plants cope with drying out.
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The hand-drawn animations were photographed at the Brown University Science Center (http://brown.edu/academics/science-center/). The music is "gentle marimba" by Alastair Cameron (http://www.cameronmusic.co.uk/).
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