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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 relationship of relative independence, yet necessary for both species, as with bees and apple trees.
Industry:Biology
Uninterrupted parallel flows of liquid, as with blood flowing smoothly through the circulatory system.
Industry:Biology
Accumulation of calcium carbonate in upper soil layers. Frequent in semi-arid areas and in grasslands.
Industry:Biology
A level, narrow ledge or bench that divides a stream or separates water from land, as in a canal path.
Industry:Biology
Love of nature. Coined by biologist E. O. Wilson. The opposite of necrophilia, the love of dead things.
Industry:Biology
Where one continental plate is pushed under another into the asthenosphere below. See Plate Tectonics.
Industry:Biology
Strips of DNA whose purposes have not been identified. They seem to play no role in anything genetic.
Industry:Biology
A lateral flow (unlike leaching, which is vertical) that carries soil, minerals, waste, or pollution.
Industry:Biology
One of the intermediate stages of ecological succession between pioneering and climax. See Succession.
Industry:Biology
Forest of small, scrubby trees sometimes draped with mosses or lichens; often found near a tree line.
Industry:Biology
