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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 woody vine that climbs on trees to spread its leaves above the canopy. Used to make rattan.
Industry:Biology
One that is either inexhaustible, like solar or wind energy, or replaceable, like wood from trees.
Industry:Biology
The primary ones are competition, mutualism, predation, parasitism, amensalism, and commensialism.
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The enzyme-controlled conversion of carbohydrates like grape sugar into hydrocarbons like alcohol.
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Containing carbon; also, made of living things or the products of their decomposition, like humus.
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A chargless particle in the nucleus of an atom. Neutrons and protons make up most of the atom's mass.
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A very fancy way of saying: having to do with lakes ("a lacustrine wetland"). See English, Latinized.
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Reduction in light intensity due to a filtering medium (e. G. , particles in water, a forest canopy).
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Where one continental plate is pushed under another into the asthenosphere below. See Plate Tectonics.
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Taken together, the troposphere, oceans, and land surfaces where things live. Also called the Ecosphere.
Industry:Biology
