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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
A crop grown to be dug into soil in need of nutrients. It is usually applied before the second crop (usually a food crop) grows to avoid overheating it or depriving it of nutrients.
Industry:Biology
Examined close up, the term seems to mean "ability to put up with things that are harsh. " The range of an organism's ability to do this is referred to as its ecological amplitude.
Industry:Biology
A plant species that establishes itself in a bare area like a recently leveled field until successional species move in. Many annuals are pioneer species. Many tend to be invasive.
Industry:Biology
From an ecopsychological perspective, a horror of carnality so profound that it seeks to etherealize the body itself. Tends to be overrepresented in highly industrialized nations.
Industry:Biology
A hatred or distrust of humankind, as when people passing for environmental activists declare human beings a blight upon the planet. The implied dualism is older than Descartes.
Industry:Biology
A form of natural selection in which characteristics (e. G. , bright plumage, deeper voices) preferred by female mates are passed down to later generations.
Industry:Biology
The climate of small locales: under plant leaves, in a garden, on a hillside. Can be used to offset too much heat, light, or cold in the surrounding area.
Industry:Biology
To break up soil in preparation for planting. Firing, clearing, plowing, and cultivating destroy the colloids that hold soil together and trap nutrients.
Industry:Biology
Evaporation of water from plant leaves. Plant sweat. Its activity depends on humidity: transpiration is higher in sunlight or wind, lower in fog or rain.
Industry:Biology
A quantity of energy equal to the amount of heat required to raise one gram of pure water from 14. 5 to 15. 5° Celsius under standard atmospheric pressure.
Industry:Biology
