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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 ...
The metabolic impact of one plant on another, whether beneficial or harmful. Example: eucalyptus tree toxins that inhibit the growth of certain plants.
Industry:Biology
The financially and politically dangerous idea that each person is entitled to a share of the world’s resources in accord with what's needed to live.
Industry:Biology
A group of common aluminum silicate minerals that contains potassium, sodium, barium, or calcium. Felspars are found in almost all crystalline rocks.
Industry:Biology
A curve on a graph that indicates an exponential increase: the curve begins low and angles upward rapidly. Worldwide population growth, for instance.
Industry:Biology
When two populations become more and more dissimilar, usually as a result of different environmental pressures. The opposite of Convergent Evolution.
Industry:Biology
A landslide. The extra weight caused by the moisture going deep into the soil during heavy rains that causes a large mass of overlying soil to move.
Industry:Biology
A horizontal underground stem from which spring shoots, buds, and roots. A potato is a thickened rhizome. Found in ferns, horsetails, and asparagus.
Industry:Biology
A layer of loose, weathered or eroded material covering rock. An important habitat for both plants and animals who cannot make a home in solid rock.
Industry:Biology
A natural or artificial basement for trapping water. One natural version catches rainfall and feeds it into a stream that drains the catchment area.
Industry:Biology
4. 55 billion years. Formed by particles of gas and denser materials once ejected from exploding supernovae and gradually pulled together by gravity.
Industry:Biology
