Ecology

Ecology

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Periglacial

Biology; Ecology

Near a glacier. Usually refers to landforms shaped by glaciation.

The formation of laterite, an infertile red clay soil used for durable bricks in the tropic and subtropics, where rains and hot sunlight combine to wash minerals out of the soil before baking it dry. ...

Biological oxygen demand (bod)

Biology; Ecology

The strengthening of a harmful and usually toxic substance as it moves up the food chain, as with DDT growing 400 times deadlier in seagulls and other carnivores than when first ingested by marsh ...

Macronutrients

Biology; Ecology

Soil nutrients (not including carbon, hydrogen, or oxygen) needed in relatively large amounts by plants: nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, sulfur. Soils lacking one or more of them ...

Photosynthesis

Biology; Ecology

The conversion of sunlight and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose (used for energy, starch, cellulose, etc. ). Plants do it with a light-sensitive organelles called chloroplasts. Photosynthesis ...

Perennial

Biology; Ecology

Plant species that bears and seeds more than once. Perennials tend to take longer to produce a food yield than the quick-growing annuals so heavily exploited by traditional agriculture, but they last ...

Albedo

Biology; Ecology

The luminosity shining from a reflective surface. Earthshine is one type. About 1/3 of the sun's radiation is reflected back into space, with the remaining 42% warming the land and air and 23% moving ...