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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 ...
Moving flats of sprouting seedlings outdoors into the shade before finally planting them in the ground. Takes about two weeks.
Industry:Biology
Invented by Ben Galding, the term refers to covered, self-maintained watering containers or catchments fed by seasonal rains.
Industry:Biology
The evolution of similar characteristics in widely separated populations. Wings in unrelated species of birds are an example.
Industry:Biology
A seismic oscillation that moves forward and backward rather than side to side. An earthquake's first large jolt. See S-Wave.
Industry:Biology
Wind speed scale developed in 1806 by Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort of the Royal Navy. Reaches from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane).
Industry:Biology
Wood from angiosperm (flowering) trees; usually deciduous and broad-leafed (maples, cottonwood, ashe, oak, elm. See Softwood.
Industry:Biology
Nutritional elements (e.g., copper, boron, manganese) required by a plant or animal in small quantities. See Macronutrient.
Industry:Biology
The piling up of water by winds and low pressure weather (cyclones, hurricanes). They cause flooding when they rush onshore.
Industry:Biology
Single-celled, shell-encased, microscopic protozoa found in all marine environments. Remains of their shells produces chalk.
Industry:Biology
A thick, wormy beetle larva. Gardeners work diatomaceous soil into the earth in spring to keep grubs from eating plant roots.
Industry:Biology
