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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 ...
Haikai Tane's term for a hypothesized evolution of ecosystems, some changing in response to human-caused planetary changes.
Industry:Biology
The twisty, shrubby islands of trees near a tree line (which marks the climatic boundary beyond which they will not grow).
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An open, uncultivated, grassy, often peaty tract of land with scrubby vegetation. Wetter than a heath but drier than a bog.
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A monomer (a chemical link in chains called polymers) composed of a sugar, a phosphate group, and a ringlike organic base.
Industry:Biology
A green crop stored in a silo to moisten it. Usually corn, but also grass, sorghum, legumes, and sunflowers, among others.
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Same crop, but planted a little at a time every one to three weeks or so to prevent them from all need harvesting at once.
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A short, thick stem that stores nutrients underground. Usually a monocot, it does this through hot summers or cold winters.
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The expression of two or more of a gene's alleles (varieties) in a population. Human hair and skin color are polymorphous.
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“Without ‘labor saving’ technological gadgets to help me, I save a lot of time by not having to fix them. ” -- Gene Logsdon.
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The study of statistical distributions of large groups of organisms or species to see why the distribution patterns vary.
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