Ecoregion
Large areas of land ecologically defined by their biodiversity and general characteristics of their ecosystems. The type of flora, fauna, climate and natural landscapes vary from one ecoregion to another.
Regionalization or Ecoregionalization
procedure for subdividing a geographic area into regions of relative homogeneity in ecological systems or in relationship between organisms and their environment.
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Regional Response Team (RRT): Representatives of federal, local, and state agencies who may assist in coordination of activities at the request of the On-Scene Coordinator before and during a significant pollution incident such as an oil spill, ...
Regional Waste Management Group (RWMG)
Statutory authority established under the Environment Protection Act 1970 responsible for planning for municipal solid waste. There are 16 RWMGs across Victoria each covering one or more municipalities ...
Regional climate: An average of the weather in a particular area over many years. Regional climate influences which kinds of plants and animals can live in a particular area.
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) - A cooperative effort by Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The RGGI states will develop a regional strategy by April 2005 for controlling emissions.
regional impact = impact is analysed by assigning it to a meaningful region; meaningful in terms of both cause and effect and policies for amelioration of risk and mitigation of impact; regions are defined socially, physically and economically; ...
Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB)
Agencies that maintain water quality standards for areas within their jurisdictions and enforce state water quality laws.
Regional Haze: The haze produced by a multitude of sources and activities which emit fine particles and their precursors across a broad geographic area.
R regional services
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Regional services mean transport services operated to meet the transport needs of a region.
Global Regions at Highest Risk from Global Warming
According to the Nature report, regions at highest risk for enduring the health effects of climate change include coastlines along the Pacific and Indian oceans and sub-Saharan Africa.
region of the spine. In that regard, it is very common to experience dysfunction of the bowel and bladder, including infections of the bladder and anal incontinence, after traumatic injury.
Regional Air Monitoring System
RAP
Radon Action Program; Registration Assessment Panel; Remedial Accomplishment Plan; Response Action Plan ...
region. Some textbooks define hard water as water with a
hardness of more than 100 mgAL as calcium carbonate.
hardness, water. A characteristic of water caused mainly by ...
Regions defined by similarity of climate, landform, soil, potential natural vegetation, hydrology, and other ecologically relevant variables.
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A region dominated by highly developed areas in which very little pervious surface exists.
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The region of permanent ice on Earth is sometimes called the cryosphere. Ocean waters cover most of Earth's surface.
RCU: Regional Co-ordinating Unit
TEB: Terrestrial Ecosystems Branch
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low A region of low pressure.
lower explosive limit (LEL) The point at which the concentration of a gas in air is sufficiently large to result in an explosion if an ignition source is present.
Geographic Region
With regard to biogeography and species distribution, a region which is separated from an adjacent region by a barrier which is usually impenetrable to many species, ...
Meristem: regions in a plant where cells are actively dividing or have the potential to divide
Monospecific: vegetated or inhabited by one species
Mutualism: a relationship between two or more species in which all receive some benefit ...
The deep-water region of a lake that is not penetrated by sunlight.
Protozoan
Single-celled, nucleated, eukaryotic organisms, lacking cell walls, generally microscopic, some are photosynthetic.
benthic region The bottom layer of a body of water. biogeochemical cycle The chemical interactions among the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.
watershed - a region or area over which water flows into a particular lake, reservoir, stream, or river.
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well - a dug or drilled hole used to get water from the earth.
Region of space comprising and adjoining the phase boundary between a solid and liquid phase, between a solid and gas phase, ...
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.
SARI. Santa Ana Regional Interceptor. A used-water discharge line that runs from the Inland Empire to the Orange County Sanitation District.
Asthenosphere:region of the mantle below the lithosphere, composed of partially melted rock. Avalanche wind:a cloudlike mixture of snow particles and air pushed ahead of a slab avalanche as it races downward.
Background levels in one region of the state may be different than those in other areas. Bedrock The solid rock underneath surface soils.
Palaeoarctic The biogeographic region comprising the landmass of Europe and Asia from its northern border to the Sahara and Himalayas. Pampa(s) The treeless plains of South America, south of the Amazon.
common in regions of limited rainfall where cereal grains are grown. The soil is tilled for at least one growing season for
weed control and decomposition of organic matter.
Water may be considered hard if it has a hardness greater than the typical hardness of water from the region. Some textbooks define hard water as water with a hardness of more than 100 mgAL as calcium carbonate.
hardness, water.
pelagic referring to open-water regions not directly influenced by the shore and bottom; limnetic
periphyton the biota attached to submersed surfaces; community of sessile organisms on lake and stream substrata
permafrost.
ACQR- Air Quality Control Region
ACS- American Chemical Society
ACT- Action
ACTS- Asbestos Contractor Tracking System
ACWA- American Clean Water Association
ACWM- Asbestos-Containing Waste Material
ADABA- Acceptable Data Base ...
Fisher (2003) "The Impacts of Socioeconomic Development and Climate Change on Severe Weather Catastrophe Losses: Mid-Atlantic Region (MAR) and the U.S." Climate Change, vol. 58 pp. 149
Dyurgerov, Mark B and Mark F. Meier (2005).
The rolling Piedmont physiographic region was formed by the long-term geologic erosion of former highlands and the piedmont is include with the mountains into the larger Appalachian region.
Stratospheric Ozone - This is also called the ozone layer, where ozone concentrations are as high as 10 parts per million, and is a vitally important region of the atmosphere.
Emissions Trading: a mechanism for achieving emissions reductions in a whole economy (either national, regional or global) for the lowest cost.
The fynbos region is the sixth flora kingdom of the world and has thousands of endemic plants, particularly in the protea family. We also have some very special fish species, which are found in the southern Cape region and nowhere else in the world.
During combustion bottom ash is the ash that is left behind in, or under the grate or combustion region, or at the bottom of a gasifier. Fly ash consists of very small particles of ash that are carried out of the system along with the flue gases.
Bluetongue disease in domesticated ruminants associated with mite bites has recently spread to the north Mediterranean region.
Climate Change in My City: Students use an historical climate index to analyze climate change at local, regional, and global scales.
A great group of soils in the Podzolic order occurring in cool humid coastal regions, cool humid inland locations at higher altitudes, and some peaty depressions.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is a federal public health agency with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and 10 regional offices in the United States.
It is a region of intense interactions among radiative, dynamical and chemical processes, in which horizontal mixing of gaseous components proceeds much more rapidly than vertical mixing.
The animal and plant life of a given region.
Biotechnology
Techniques that use living organisms or parts of organisms to produce a variety of products (from medicines to industrial enzymes) to improve plants or animals or to develop ...
community supported agriculture (CSA): a network of consumers in a region enter into a contract to buy produce (often organic) from local farmers, ...
"8 "OCs deposit to a greater degree in colder regions, accounting for their unexpectedly high concentrations observed in the air, sea water, plankton, wildlife, and people in the Arctic region."9 ...
migration: seasonal movements from one region to another.
natural diversity: the wide variety of living things that make up an ecosystem.
refuge: an area set aside for the purpose of conserving species and their habitat.
Newly-Industrialized Economies: Regions, primarily in southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim, that have experienced rapid economic growth rates in the last several decades.
Develops during the polar winter when the polar regions are in polar night (sunlight does not reach the poles). Wind speeds around the vortex may reach 100 metres per second. The vortex establishes itself in the middle to lower stratosphere.
For example, countries whose coastal regions have a large population, such as Egypt and China, may see whole populations move inland to avoid flood risk areas.
Occupied Zone: The region within an occupied space between planes 3 and 72 in. (75 and 1800 mm) above the floor and more than 2 ft (600mm) from the walls or fixed air-conditioning equipment.
exotic species : A species that is not indigenous to a region.
explosive limits : The amounts of vapor in the air that form explosive mixtures; ...
IMPORTED WATER: Water that has originated from one hydrologic region and is transferred to another hydrologic region.
Expressed sequence tag: A unique stretch of DNA within a coding region of a gene that is useful for identifying full-length genes and serves as a landmark for mapping.
Cirque: A large size amphitheatre shaped hollow which has been excavated by ice action in mountainous regions.
Clastic Rock - (Detrital Rock): A sedimentary rock composed of fragments ofpre-existing rocks or organic structures.
Familiar types of electromagnetic radiation range from x rays (and gamma rays) of short wavelength, through the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared regions, to radar and radio waves of relatively long wavelength.
The movement of suspended or dissolved particles from a more concentrated to a less concentrated region as a result of the random movement of individual particles; the process tends to distribute them uniformly throughout the available volume.
Stratosphere The atmosphere from approximately 12 km to 70 km. The temperature of the atmosphere increases in this region.
Stream based standards See receiving water quality standards.
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