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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 ...
Paul Taylor’s term for how humans exploit other living things domesticating animals, force-feeding livestock, etc.
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A dry volume measure of fruit and vegetable products equal to four pecks or eight gallons (2150. 42 cubic inches).
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The cell-generating tissue between the bark and the stem. Usually absent in monocotyledonous (see Monocot) plants.
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A reflecting membrane that reprocesses incoming photons. It makes the eyes of cats and other night animals shine.
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A predator's ability to hunt a different species for prey when its preferred species has declined or disappeared.
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The planting and growing of more than one species together, as natural world does it. Different from Monoculture.
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A large mass of intrusive igneous rock. Named after Pluto, god of the underworld, whose name also means "wealth. "
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Microscopic filaments from simple plants like mushrooms, bracket fungi, mushrooms, etc. That weave soil together.
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Warm-blooded animals in cold climates tend to be larger than animals of the same species living in warm climates.
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The ecological effect of a canopy gap opened when a tree dies or is otherwise removed from a section of forest.
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