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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 hypothesis that industrializing nations exhibit death rate declines followed by birth rate declines.
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A relationship of relative independence, yet necessary for both species, as with bees and apple trees.
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Accumulation of calcium carbonate in upper soil layers. Frequent in semi-arid areas and in grasslands.
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Love of nature. Coined by biologist E. O. Wilson. The opposite of necrophilia, the love of dead things.
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An organism that eats dead organisms, thereby recycling the nutrients. Fungi and bacteria are examples.
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A temperature rise that threatens an ecosystem, particularly one in which organisms breed or give birth.
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The concentration of salts dissolved in water, measured in parts per thousand. Seawater averages 34 ppt.
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Networks of channels that transport nutrients, fluids, and wastes. The circulatory system is an example.
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Proteins that augment (catalyze) and manage chemical reactions in cells by lowering the activation energy.
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The layer of cells lining a body cavity to protect it (e. G. , the stomach). Both plants and animals have it.
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