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bioturbation
Biology; Ecology

When organisms disturb sediments, as with worms on the ocean floor that eat food stuck between sand particles.

cellulose
Biology; Ecology

An insoluble, fibrous carbohydrate that reinforces the cell walls of plants, green algae, and dinoflagellates.

monocline
Biology; Ecology

A fold in which rock strata bend in the same direction. Caused by sedimentary rocks bending over a fault line.

thermokarst
Biology; Ecology

High-altitude landscape holed pitted by selective permafrost thawing. Karst without the chemical weathering. .

denitrification
Biology; Ecology

Chemical conversion of dissolved nitrogen (nitrite) into gaseous nitrogen. Fires on particular soils do this.

illuviation
Biology; Ecology

Accumulation of soil materials (clay, humus, iron, etc. ) leached from one soil layer or horizon into another.

hemiphyte
Biology; Ecology

An epiphyte (a plant that grows on another plant) that eventually extends its own roots into the ground.

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