Original air date: 1 February 1995

The timeline above shows how the story develops from being a regular introduction to plant communities to drift towards grasslands. A more detailed look can be seen in the text version below

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A perfect place for a new seedling to start its life in the forest, on top of another tree trunk (right). On the forest floor it could be buried in moss but on the trunk it’s different.

Attenborough shows the regular spacing between tree trunks, all growing on an earlier trunk – just like the one he showed earlier