Biosphere
The biosphere is the living component of the earth's system that includes all living organisms as well as dead organic matter produced by them. The study of the biosphere is a core concept in ecology and earth science.
Biosphere Reserve - a part of an international network of preserved areas designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Biosphere. The regions of the Earth's air, water, and land, where life exists. The biosphere is a closed and self-regulating system sustained by grand-scale cycles of energy and materials.
Biosphere - A volume including the lower part of the troposphere (as high as living organisms can fly or be lofted) and the surface of the earth including the oceans. This region, by definition, encompasses all the living matter of the earth.
Biosphere: The global ecosystem; that part of the earth and atmosphere capable of supporting living organisms.
Biosphere
The portion of Earth and its atmosphere that can support life (Source: US EPA)
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Biosphere: The earth and all its ecosystems
Biota: Collectively, the plants, microorganisms, and animals of a certain area or region.
Biotransformation: Conversion of a substance into other compounds by organisms; including biodegradation.
Biosphere is the sum of all ecosystems
Biotechnology means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use.
biosphere
Portion of the planet earth which supports and includes life.
biostatic
Adjective applied to a substance which arrests the growth or multiplication of living organisms.
biosphere That portion of the solid and liquid earth and its atmosphere where living organisms can be and are sustained.
biostabilizer A machine that converts solid waste into compost by grinding and aeration.
Biosphere
The part of the earth and its atmosphere in which living organisms exist or that is capable of supporting life; (2) the living organisms and their environment composing the biosphere.
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Established under UNESCO's man and the biosphere (MAB) programme, biosphere reserves are a series of protected areas linked through a global network, ...
BIOSPHERE The biosphere consists of all living organisms that occur on earth. About 1.7 million species of plants, animals and micro-organisms have been described by scientists and placed in taxonomic lists.
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The wealth and diversity of living organisms on the Earth. Processes in the biosphere include life and death, evolution and extinction.
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Biosphere The ecosystem in which living organisms exist or that is capable of supporting life. Blackwater Waste water containing urine and fecal matter. Brownfields The U.S.
atmosphere - biosphere) of the carbon cycle. An examination of the carbon budget of a pool or reservoir can provide information about whether the pool or reservoir is functioning as a source or sink for CO2.
Plants form the basis of the biosphere. By means of photosynthesis, they use solar energy to convert water, nutrients, and carbon dioxide into usable biomass.
The cycle by which carbon in various forms moves between the various components of the Earth's biosphere, between the atmosphere, hydrosphere (seas and oceans), ...
The reservoirs are the atmosphere, terrestrial biosphere (usually includes freshwater systems), oceans, and sediments (includes fossil fuels).
Its characteristics embrace all reasonably stable, or predictably cyclic, attributes of the biosphere vertically above and below this area, including those of the atmosphere, the soil and the underlying geology, the hydrology, ...
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
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The atoms and molecules on the earth cycle among the living and nonliving components of the biosphere.
Human activities modify ecosystems.
Physical properties of compounds reflect the nature of the interactions among their molecules.
Ecosphere: The "bio-bubble" that contains life on earth, in surface waters, and in the air. (See: biosphere.)
Ecosystem: The interacting system of a biological community and its non-living environmental surroundings.
Along with bacteria, fungi are the principal organisms responsible for the decomposition of carbon in the biosphere.
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