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Where the wild things are?
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biosphere
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A biosphere is the part of a planet's shell where all life occurs; a self-regulating, closed ecological system. Biosphere may also refer to: Biosphere (musician) (born 1962), recording name of Geir Jenssen, a Norwegian musician "Biosphere", a song by In ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As he examined the biosphere in succeeding years, he added more complex phenomena to the list of life-made. ▪ CO2 is the accepted limiting resource for the biosphere . ▪ He enraged biologists by considering the biosphere of living ...
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n. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the part of the Earth and its atmosphere capable of supporting life 2 the totality of living organisms and their environment
Usage examples of biosphere.
Ego camps still absolutize the noosphere, the Eco camps are still absolutizing the biosphere, utterly unaware that this contributes every bit as much as the Ego camps to the destruction of the biosphere itself.
Ego and the Eco will never be integrated in this scheme, with the one absolutizing the noosphere and the other absolutizing the biosphere.
The alien biospheres that had produced that precious blend of breathable gases were inevitably hostile and poisonous to terrestrial organisms, some immediately fatal.
But where the differentiation of the biosphere and the noosphere was not complete, the biospheric identities sucked these movements back out of the noosphere and into the bodily or biological determinants.
The biosphere remains essentially intact on Wessex as it does on the other New48.
Divine Plan, exoskeletal forms always become dominant within any biosphere, a complex association evolving between the patterns associated with the fundamental groups of arthropods, crustaceans, and mollusks.
On other planets the biospheres had not been totally destroyed, but rather purged of all life much larger than a bacterium or a worm.
The Tsuris computer, which was able to extend its power far beyond its biosphere, like a globular creature extending a long ghostly but effective pseudopod, extended its influence and plucked the Scalsian ship out of space and dragged it down to the level of the planet.
Or it could also be said that the extreme amplification of human race, which has occurred only in the past hundred years or so, has suddenly produced a very large quantity of meat, which is sitting everywhere in the biosphere and may not be able to defend itself against a life form that might want to consume it.
And thus it is small wonder that, in these ecologically disastrous times, many moderns are attempting to resurrect the natural wisdom of tribal awareness more attuned with the biosphere.
At the end of the period of greenhouse heating, there was an overshoot of the return to normal, as the whole biosphere and its ruined biosystems strove for adjustment.
Treatment of the land is fundamental to any government concerned with permaculture, that is, with stewardship of the biosphere for the good of future generations.
The resulting caverns were expanded, regularized into cylindrical shapes, the surface sculpted into a landscape, sealed, then turned into habitable biospheres.
Inside each herd-ship, hundreds of biospheres were painstakingly repro duced down to the microscopic flora and fauna of the topsoils.
Fifty-six thousand people had been killed when the biosphere chamber ruptured, spewing them out into space.