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Asa Gray disjunction (Phytogeography 🌱) The Asa Gray disjunction, also known as the Eastern Asian–Eastern North American disjunction, refers to a biogeographical pattern or biogeographical phenomenon in which closely related plant, fungi and animal species are found in temperate forests of […]

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Moment distance index (Remote sensing 🛰️) The moment distance index is a shape-based metric or shape index that can be used to analyze spectral reflectance curves and waveform lidar, proposed by Dr. Eric Ariel L. Salas and Dr. Geoffrey M. Henebry. In the case of spectral data, the shape of the […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Map symbol (Cartography 🗺️) A map symbol or cartographic symbol is a graphical device used to visually represent a real-world feature on a map, working in the same fashion as other forms of symbols. Map symbols may include point markers, lines, regions, continuous fields, or text; these can be […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Podgora (hill) (Karst 🌍) Podgora, also known in Italian as Monte Calvario and in Slovene as Kalvarija, is a hill on the Karst plateau west of Gorizia, on the right bank of the Isonzo, with an elevation of 241 meters above sea level. It is historically subdivided in two hills, Podgora and […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Spatial composition (Landscape ecology 🏞️) In landscape ecology, spatial composition describes the content of a landscape in terms of the number of different categories of elements existing in the landscape and their proportions. Most commonly the elements being measured are spatial patches of […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Elevational diversity gradient (Ecology 🏞️) Elevational diversity gradient is an ecological pattern where biodiversity changes with elevation. The EDG states that species richness tends to decrease as elevation increases, up to a certain point, creating a "diversity bulge" at middle elevations […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Necrophage (Zoology 🦥) Necrophages are animals that feed on decomposing dead animal biomass, such as the muscle and soft tissue of carcasses or corpses. The term derives from Greek nekros, meaning 'dead', and phagein, meaning 'to eat'. Many hundreds of necrophagous species have been identified […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Overexploitation (Ecology 🏞️) Overexploitation, also called overharvesting or ecological overshoot, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns. Continued overexploitation can lead to the destruction of the resource, as it will be unable to replenish itself […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Indomalayan realm (Biogeography 🌍) The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indian subcontinent […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Portal:Plants (Botany 🌱) ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Plants #PortalPlants #Botany #Plants #AllPortals #BiologyPortals #PagesWithPlainIpa

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Future of Marine Animal Populations (Zoology 🦥) The Future of Marine Animal Populations project was one of the core projects of the international Census of Marine Life. FMAP's mission is to describe and synthesize globally changing patterns of species abundance, distribution, and diversity, and […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Steppic Biogeographic Region (Biogeography 🌍) The Steppic Biogeographic Region is a biogeographic region of Europe, as defined by the European Environment Agency. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppic_Bioge… #SteppicBiogeographicRegion #Biogeography #EnvironmentOfEurope

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Canopy (botany) (Habitat 🌄) In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant cropping or crop, formed by the collection of individual plant crowns. In forest ecology, the canopy is the upper layer or habitat zone, formed by mature tree crowns and including other biological organisms […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Antarctic realm (Phytogeography 🌱) The Antarctic realm is one of eight terrestrial biogeographic realms. The ecosystem includes Antarctica and several island groups in the southern Atlantic and Indian oceans. The continent of Antarctica is so cold that it has supported only two vascular plants […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Rahasane Turlough (Karst 🌍) Rahasane Turlough is a turlough, west of Craughwell in southwest County Galway. It is the largest surviving turlough in Ireland. A turlough is a karst lake, which has no surface outlet and is surrounded on all sides by rising land. At Rahasane the drainage has been […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Ocean development (Earth sciences 🌍) Ocean development refers to the establishing of human activities at sea and use of the ocean, as well as its governance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_develop… #OceanDevelopment #Oceans #EarthSciences

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Corundum (structure) (Mineralogy 💎) Corundum is the name for a structure prototype in inorganic solids, derived from the namesake polymorph of aluminum oxide. Other compounds, especially among the inorganic solids, exist in corundum structure, either in ambient or other conditions. Corundum […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Misocyclone (Meteorology ⛈️) A misocyclone is a concentrated, rotating column of air measuring less than 4 kilometers in horizontal diameter. Classified within the misoscale domain of meteorology, misocyclones are physically distinct from larger, storm-scale mesocyclones. Rather than […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Flora (Habitat 🌄) Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora as in the terms gut flora or […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Periglaciation (Glaciology 🗻) Periglaciation describes geomorphic processes that result from seasonal thawing and freezing, very often in areas of permafrost. The meltwater may refreeze in ice wedges and other structures. "Periglacial" originally suggested an environment located on the margin […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Bradyseism (Volcanology 🌋) Bradyseism is the gradual uplift or descent of part of the Earth's surface caused by the filling or emptying of an underground magma chamber or hydrothermal activity, particularly in volcanic calderas. It can persist for millennia in between eruptions and each uplift […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Ethnopaleontology (Paleontology 🦕) Ethnopaleontology is the study of the relationship between humans and fossils, or the preserved remains of ancient organisms. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnopaleonto… #Ethnopaleontology #Ethnobiology #Paleontology #TraditionalKnowledge

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Land Suitability classification (Pedology 🟤) The Land Suitability Classification is a soil evaluation method, developed by FAO. FAO stated that Land suitability is the fitness of a given type of land for a defined use. The land may be considered in its present condition or after improvements […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Geochemical Ocean Sections Study (Oceanography 🌊) The Geochemical Ocean Sections Study was a global survey of the three-dimensional distributions of chemical, isotopic, and radiochemical tracers in the ocean. A key objective was to investigate the deep thermohaline circulation of the ocean […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Man and the Biosphere Programme (Biomes 🌍) The Man and the Biosphere Programme is an intergovernmental scientific program, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the 'improvement of relationships' between people and their environments. Even though the MAB […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Heuristic (Ecogeographic rules 🌍) A heuristic or heuristic technique is any approach to problem solving that employs a pragmatic method that is not necessarily optimized, perfected, or rationalized, but is nevertheless "good enough" as an approximation or attribute substitution. Where finding […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Fluid inclusion (Mineralogy 💎) A fluid inclusion is a bubble of fluid that is trapped within a crystal. As minerals often form from a liquid or aqueous medium, tiny bubbles of that liquid can become trapped within the crystal, or along healed crystal fractures. These inclusions usually range in […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Geode (Petrology 💎) A geode 'earthlike') is a geological secondary formation within sedimentary and volcanic rocks. Geodes are hollow, vaguely spherical rocks, in which masses of mineral matter are secluded. The crystals are formed by the filling of vesicles in volcanic and subvolcanic rocks by […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Aerial video (Remote sensing 🛰️) Aerial video is an emerging form of data acquisition for scene understanding and object tracking. The video is captured by low flying aerial platforms that integrate Global Positioning Systems and automated image processing to improve the accuracy and […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Antarctic ice sheet (Glaciology 🗻) The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of 14 million square kilometres and an average thickness of over 2 kilometres. It is the largest of Earth's two current ice sheets, containing 26.5 million […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

List of geoscience organizations (Earth sciences 🌍) This is a list of geoscience organizations, including such fields of geosciences as geology, geophysics, hydrology, oceanography, petrophysics, and related fields. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geosc… […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Tussock grass (Biogeography 🌍) Tussock grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae. They usually grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a sod or lawn, in meadows, grasslands, and prairies. As perennial plants, most species live more […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Historicism (Evolution 🧬) Historicism is an approach to understanding social, cultural, philosophical, and historical phenomena in terms of their historical development. It emphasizes that ideas, institutions, and values are best understood by examining the historical processes through which […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Color index (geology) (Geology ⛰️) Color index, as a geological term, is a measure of the ratio between generally dark mafic minerals and generally light felsic minerals in an igneous rock. The color index of an igneous rock is the volume percentage of mafic minerals in the rock, excluding […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Meteorology (Meteorology ⛈️) Meteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena, with a focus on weather forecasting. It has applications in the military, aviation, energy production, transport, agriculture, construction, weather warnings, and […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Xenobot (Microbiology 🦠) Xenobots, named after the clawed frog, are synthetic lifeforms that are designed by computers to perform some desired function and built by combining together different biological tissues. There is debate among scientists whether xenobots are robots, organisms, or […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Stratigraphic unit (Geology terminology ⛰️) A stratigraphic unit is a volume of rock of identifiable origin and relative age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features that characterize it. Units must […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Sea ice emissivity modelling (Remote sensing 🛰️) With increased interest in sea ice and its effects on the global climate, efficient methods are required to monitor both its extent and exchange processes. Satellite-mounted, microwave radiometers, such SSMI, AMSR and AMSU, are an ideal tool for […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Macaronesian Biogeographic Region (Biogeography 🌍) The Macaronesian Biogeographic Region is a biogeographic region, as defined by the European Environment Agency, that covers the Azores, the Canary Islands, and Madeira. The name comes from the group of four archipelagos collectively known as […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Storm Data (Storm 🌪️) Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena is a monthly NOAA publication with comprehensive listings and detailed summaries of severe weather occurrences in the United States. Included is information on tornadoes, high wind events, hail, lightning, floods and flash floods […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

M. King Hubbert Award (Hydrology 💧) The M. King Hubbert Award is an annual award granted by the National Ground Water Association in the United States. Established in 1973, it is named after Marion King Hubbert, an American geophysicist who made foundational contributions to geology and […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Growing degree-day (Climatology 🌍) Growing degree days, also called growing degree units, are a heuristic tool in phenology. GDD are a measure of heat accumulation used by horticulturists, gardeners, and farmers to predict plant and animal development rates such as the date that a flower will […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Paleocontinent (Paleogeography 🦕) A paleocontinent or palaeocontinent is a distinct area of continental crust that existed as a major landmass in the geological past. There have been many different landmasses throughout Earth's time. They range in sizes since some are just a collection of small […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Spatial composition (Landscape ecology 🏞️) In landscape ecology, spatial composition describes the content of a landscape in terms of the number of different categories of elements existing in the landscape and their proportions. Most commonly the elements being measured are spatial patches of […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Myco-heterotrophy (Botany 🌱) Myco-heterotrophy is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis. A myco-heterotroph is the parasitic plant partner in this […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

MyOcean (Oceanography 🌊) MyOcean is a series of projects granted by the European Commission within the GMES Program, whose objective is to define and to set up a concerted and integrated pan-European capacity for ocean monitoring and forecasting. The activities benefit several specified areas […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Aerobic fermentation (Evolution 🧬) Aerobic fermentation or aerobic glycolysis is a metabolic process by which cells metabolize sugars via fermentation in the presence of oxygen and occurs through the repression of normal respiratory metabolism. Preference of aerobic fermentation over aerobic […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Visual variable (Cartography 🗺️) A visual variable, in cartographic design, graphic design, and data visualization, is an aspect of a graphical object that can visually differentiate it from other objects, and can be controlled during the design process. The concept was first systematized by […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Oral microbiology (Microbiology 🦠) Oral microbiology is the study of the microorganisms of the oral cavity and their interactions between oral microorganisms or with the host. The environment present in the human mouth is suited to the growth of characteristic microorganisms found there. It […]

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Planetary Ecologist @planetaryecologist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Effective temperature (Planetary science 🪐) The effective temperature of a body such as a star or planet is the temperature of a black body that would emit the same total energy as electromagnetic radiation. Effective temperature is often used as an estimate of a body's surface temperature when […]

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