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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 ...
Able to live in more than one kind of environment, like a plant that flourishes with or without air. Frequent in species that dwell in wetland uplands.
Industry:Biology
The degradation of moist land into a desert. Some desertification is natural, but most is from erosion, climate change (global warming), or overgrazing.
Industry:Biology
A measure for lumber equivalent to a one-inch thick board one foot long and one foot wide. Often used to determine the amount of wood cut from a forest.
Industry:Biology
A long strip formed by sand deposited across the mouth of a harbor or inlet. They are often duned, and many separate an area of marshland from the sea.
Industry:Biology
Light emitted by chemical reactions within living things (fireflies, glow worms, jellyfish, etc. ). Uses: to communicate, escape predators, attract prey.
Industry:Biology
A phase change from a solid into a gas state without any liquid state first. Example: dry ice turning directly into a vapor. Can also occur in reverse.
Industry:Biology
Fuels from sources cleaner than coal or petroleum products: ethanol, methanol, natural gas, solar, wind, geothermal, biodiesel from vegetable oil, etc.
Industry:Biology
Portions of open water or marsh defined by natural topographical features such as points or islands, or by human structures such as dikes or channels.
Industry:Biology
A very long molecule made up of nucleotide chains carrying genetic information built from carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus. See DNA.
Industry:Biology
A methane and carbon dioxide emission due to the breakdown of organic matter by anaerobic bacteria. Some trap it for use as an alternative fuel source.
Industry:Biology
