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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 angle that lies between a leaf stalk and its stem. Site of bud formation in flowering plants.
Industry:Biology
Wrapping something like wire around a tree trunk to choke the cambrium layer and kill the tree.
Industry:Biology
A highly toxic chlorinated hydrocarbon used in herbicides and produced by industrial pollution.
Industry:Biology
Tiny organisms living in the atmosphere. Certain small seeds, bacteria, and spores are examples.
Industry:Biology
The ecology of an organism or taxonomic group; also, the study of how organisms affects plants.
Industry:Biology
A measure of similarity between the plants and animals of two different ecological communities.
Industry:Biology
In flowering plants, the enclosure around the seed-making ovules. The ovary becomes the fruit.
Industry:Biology
A specific, identifiable source of pollutants, like the BP oil refinery in Carson, California.
Industry:Biology
Mechanical augmentation of dissolved oxygen in water, as in cresting waves or below waterfalls.
Industry:Biology
The biomass of a trophic level, community, population, or species at a certain time and place.
Industry:Biology
