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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 barrier of trees or other vegetation planted to block incoming winds. Shelterbelts prevent moisture loss and erosion.
Industry:Biology
In any environment, only one climax community will dominate. See Polyclimax Theory for a less capitalistic perspective.
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A high-pressure system that spirals outward clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern.
Industry:Biology
The quantity of heat flowing from the Earth back into space. Emissivity and albedo help balance the global temperature.
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Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted into another form. Sunlight into tissue; motion into electricity.
Industry:Biology
The limit beyond which changes to a landform accelerate into a new state (e.g., a creeping slope suddenly falls over).
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Groups of cells that all originate from one cell. Merophytes build much of a plant, the leaves and stems in particular.
Industry:Biology
The cycling of nutrients through the environment and its inhabitants from soil to plants to animals and back to soil.
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Dropping water levels in a dam or reservoir. Also: the overuse of resources faster than they can be replaced. See Oil.
Industry:Biology
The evaporation of water off leaf surfaces. A natural event, but can cause plants to lose too much water in dry times.
Industry:Biology
