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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 tree cut back to the trunk to make its branching or foliage denser. Also, an animal without horns (e. G. , a sheep).
Industry:Biology
A large mass of intrusive igneous rock. Named after Pluto, god of the underworld, whose name also means "wealth. "
Industry:Biology
The ecological effect of a canopy gap opened when a tree dies or is otherwise removed from a section of forest.
Industry:Biology
The accumulation of small-grained sediments brought by water. A major problem of many dams and deep water ports.
Industry:Biology
The layer of cells lining a body cavity to protect it (e. G. , the stomach). Both plants and animals have it.
Industry:Biology
Reduction in light intensity due to a filtering medium (e. G. , particles in water, a forest canopy).
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The weathering off of granite sheets. Called unloading when it happens in conjunction with uplift.
Industry:Biology
Tourism that makes use of the ecological attributes of a place (e. G. , bird-watching).
Industry:Biology
A species with male and female flowers on the same plant (e. G. , pines).
Industry:Biology
Time required for half of a quantity of particle-emitting material to undergo radioactive decay. Because emission slows as the isotope decreases in radioactivity, taking half the life of its decay is more meaningful than trying to estimate the entire amount. Half-lives range from millionths of a second to millions of years.
Industry:Biology
