Environmental conservation

Environmental conservation

Terms related to protecting natural resources including plant and animal species as well as their habitat for the future.

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data compilation (method)

Environment; Environmental conservation

Procedures used to develop necessary information products about water, including but not limited to, quality assurance, statistical analysis, mathematical manipulations, integration of data from ...

debye-hiickel equation

Environment; Environmental conservation

A means of computing the activity coefficient for an ionic species.

decomposers

Environment; Environmental conservation

Heterotrophic organisms that break down dead protoplasm and use some of the products and release others for use by consumer organisms.

decomposition

Environment; Environmental conservation

The breakdown of matter by bacteria and fungi. It changes the chemical makeup and physical appearance of materials.

deep percolation (irrigation)

Environment; Environmental conservation

Water that moves downward through the soil profile below the root zone and cannot be used by plants.

deep water

Environment; Environmental conservation

That part of the ocean below the main thermocline.

The removal of forest stands by cutting and burning to provide land for agricultural purposes, residential or industrial building sites, roads, etc. or by harvesting the trees for building materials ...