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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 symbiotic association of a true fungi and a green alga. The alga makes sugar through photosynthesis, and the fungi fills out the organism while holding it to a surface (rocks, bark, etc. ). Lichens pioneer harsh or sparse environments, provide food for grazers, and break down rocks through chemical weathering.
Industry:Biology
The water mass of the earth, including water vapor. Oceans occupy 71% of the planet surface: roughly the same percent occupied by water in the human body. Of the fresh water in rivers, streams, reservoirs, etc. , 90% is believed to show some level of pollution.
Industry:Biology
Compounds of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon formed into the sugars, starches, and cellulose formed by plant photosynthesis of water and carbon dioxide. They provide energy and facilitate fat production. Three primary types: monosaccharides (simple sugars like fructose and glucose), disaccharides (lactose, maltose, and sucrose), and polysaccharides (cellulose, glycogen, dextrin, starch). Foods that provide carbohydrates include breads, beans, dairy products, potatoes, corn, many sweet deserts.
Industry:Biology
Fifty common chlorine compounds that grow stronger as they move up the food chain. Odorless and tasteless, they came from electronics manufacturing until laws were passed to forbid their production and release. They are still plentiful in the air, soil, and water, however. Symptoms vary from depression, rashes, and acne to gastrointestinal and liver damage.
Industry:Biology
A naturally bounded, ecologically distinct geography: a watershed is one example. Term coined by Peter Berg and Raymond Dasmann. The largest bioregion is an ecoregion (example: the Ozark Plateau), the next largest a georegion (river basins, mountains, watersheds), and the next a local morphoregion. As Berg described it:
A bioregion refers both to geographical terrain and a terrain of consciousness--to a place and the ideas that have developed about how to live in that place. . . A bioregion can be determined initially by use of climatology, physiography, animal and plant geography, natural history and other descriptive natural sciences. The final boundaries of a bioregion, however, are best described by the people who have lived within it, through human recognition of the realities of living-in-place. . . .
Industry:Biology
メーカーと原形のメンテナ;ウイルスを除くすべての生物の基本的な生活単位。生物細菌以外の細胞がされるの染色体は、そこから細胞がタンパク質を合成するDNAのレシピを含んで定義されている核を含むものは、真核生物。細胞が何をすべきか、どの遺伝子が周囲の細胞は、化学方向勾配を参考に何をすべきかのオンを知っている。より複雑な細胞の生物ではさまざまな組織に専門としています。 <center> [ファイル：cell.jpg </center>
Industry:Biology
Surface mining that strips off an entire surface layer (the overburden). Common consequences are eroded or denuded hillsides, devastated ecosystems, and toxic runoffs, especially of sulfur compounds from coal deposits. This pollutes not only the land but nearby water sources.
Industry:Biology
Chemicals that kill pests by ruining their nervous system. Originally developed by the Nazis during the 1930s for use as bioweapons--"weapons of mass production," as President Bush would say. Currently the most popular class of pesticides. See Cholinesterase Inhibitors. (Chemicals from poisons and explosives, tractors from caterpillar-treaded tanks: over the years mechanized agriculture assumes more and more of the features of a war against the soil. See Agriculture. )
Industry:Biology
Le remplacement progressif de la communauté d'une plante par une autre. Induites par les changements climatiques, en environnement ou dans la Communauté (succession climatique, physiographique succession, succession biotique) et plus fréquemment par l'érosion, une chute des niveaux d'eau ou d'invasion par une autre espèce. Succession en raison de forces extérieures est l'allogreffe et autogène quand Self vous y êtes invité. Dans l'ensemble, la série commence avec les espèces pionnières et produit à ceux plus mature et plus longtemps vécu (apogée). Exemple : un terrain pris en charge par les mauvaises herbes, puis les buissons, puis usines fleurissantes et enfin des arbres.
Industry:Biology
Masanobu Fukuoka's method for letting roots till the soil instead of machines. Decrease cultivation and you decrease weeds. Leguminous cover crops and mulching instead of fertilizer. Fukuoka practices what he calls the "no-plowing, no-fertilizing, no-weeding, no-pesticides, do-nothing method of natural farming. " To him the idea that people can grow crops is egocentric, for it is nature that grows crops. His rice yields have been impressive. (He reads like kind of a nut: lots of “man in his arrogance” soliloquizing reminiscent of Roger Payne in the seventies. )
Industry:Biology
