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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 ...
Partially flooded low-lying peatland fed water from upslope. (Fen peat usually comes from decomposing sedges, rushes, and other such plant matter. )
Industry:Biology
A mammal whose offspring develop after birth in the mother’s pouch (the marsupium) outside her body. 75% of living marsupials come from Australia.
Industry:Biology
A parasite to another parasite. In crabs, pepper spot disease occurs when the flatworms that infect the crab are infected by a parasitic protozoan.
Industry:Biology
When a predator changes from eating one species to another, usually in response to changing abundances. Tends to equalize competitive populations.
Industry:Biology
A dark, extrusive, igneous rock made of particles so fine they can't be seen unaided. Formed from mafic (high in heavy elements) magma. See Felsic.
Industry:Biology
Land drop. The decreased elevation can come from natural settling or from something done by humans (groundwater depletion, petroleum withdrawal).
Industry:Biology
Jared Diamond's name for the human artifacts, ornaments, paintings, and other symbolic innovations that appeared rather suddenly 40,000 years ago.
Industry:Biology
Air pollution produced by the reaction of hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, and sunlight. Automobile and industrial exhausts are major contributors.
Industry:Biology
A complex carbohydrate used by plants to store glucose as food energy. Starches make up corn, wheat, rice, potatoes, beans, and other vegetables.
Industry:Biology
Putting the natural world, rather than the human world, into the perceived center of the cosmos. The land is not made for us: we are a part of it.
Industry:Biology
