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Storm surge
Biology; Ecology

The piling up of water by winds and low pressure weather (cyclones, hurricanes). They cause flooding when they rush onshore.

Foraminifera
Biology; Ecology

Single-celled, shell-encased, microscopic protozoa found in all marine environments. Remains of their shells produces chalk.

Grub
Biology; Ecology

A thick, wormy beetle larva. Gardeners work diatomaceous soil into the earth in spring to keep grubs from eating plant roots.

Ecosynthesis
Biology; Ecology

Haikai Tane's term for a hypothesised evolution of ecosystems, some changing in response to human-caused planetary changes.

Krummholz
Biology; Ecology

The twisty, shrubby islands of trees near a tree line (which marks the climatic boundary beyond which they will not grow).

Moor
Biology; Ecology

An open, uncultivated, grassy, often peaty tract of land with scrubby vegetation. Wetter than a heath but drier than a bog.

Nucleotide
Biology; Ecology

A monomer (a chemical link in chains called polymers) composed of a sugar, a phosphate group, and a ringlike organic base.

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