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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 number of diverse species occupying a particular area. A sample with 50 species is richer than a sample with 5.
Industry:Biology
The drop in the water table near an overused well, resulting in a cone-shaped dry zone called an area of influence.
Industry:Biology
Traditionally, the period between the last freeze in the spring and the first frost in the fall. Varies by location.
Industry:Biology
The number of days between planting the seed and first harvest. In politics, the end of the current geological age.
Industry:Biology
The transitial zone between adjacent biotic communities, often with unique nutrients and ecological relationships.
Industry:Biology
A limestone-bedrock landscape dotted by fissures, caverns, sink holes, and other evidences of chemical weathering.
Industry:Biology
Reducible by bacteria as opposed to something that remains in the environment (plastic, certain inustrial wastes).
Industry:Biology
The specialization of brain functions by hemisphere (language in the left lobe, pattern recognition in the right).
Industry:Biology
Red sedimentary layers of sandstone, silt, and shale colored by iron oxides; often seen in the American Southwest.
Industry:Biology
A shallow lagoon or pond in which agricultural manure and other wastes are broken down by microscopic organisms.
Industry:Biology
