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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 ...
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 large mass of intrusive igneous rock. Named after Pluto, god of the underworld, whose name also means "wealth. "
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For a given species, the ideal range of suitable conditions without competition or predators. See Realized Niche.
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Coarse sedimentary rock composed of sharp, angular rock fragments cemented together. Contrast with Conglomerate.
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An insoluble, fibrous carbohydrate that reinforces the cell walls of plants, green algae, and dinoflagellates.
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Chemical conversion of dissolved nitrogen (nitrite) into gaseous nitrogen. Fires on particular soils do this.
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The passage and recycling of carbon through the plantary biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.
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Soil aggregation. "Good tilth" means it clumps properly for planting but is porous enough to let air in.
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An organism that eats dead organisms, thereby recycling the nutrients. Fungi and bacteria are examples.
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