 | J. Baird Callicott - 1987 - 322 pagina’s
...which conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil. The circuit is not closed; . . . but it is a sustained circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund of life. (216) In this exceedingly abstract (albeit poetically expressed) model of nature, process precedes... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 pagina’s
...channels which conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil. The circuit is not closed; some energy is dissipated in decay, some is added...circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund of life. There is always a net loss by downhill wash, but this is normally small and offset by the decay... | |
 | Aldo Leopold - 1992 - 400 pagina’s
...some energy is dissipated in decay, some is added by absorption, some is stored in soils, peats, and forests, but it is a sustained circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund of life. The upward flow of energy depends on the complex structure of the plant and animal community,... | |
 | Robert V. Percival, Dorothy C. Alevizatos - 1997 - 468 pagina’s
...channels which conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil. The circuit is not closed; some energy is dissipated in decay, some is added...circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund of life. There is always a net loss by downhill wash, but this is normally small and offset by the decay... | |
 | Douglas Sturm - 1998 - 348 pagina’s
...channels which conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soiL The circuit is not closed...; but it is a sustained circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund of life. 49 Over the course of evolution, the circuit has increased in complexity and diversity, progressing,... | |
 | Peter C. List - 2000 - 388 pagina’s
...channels which conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil. The circuit is not closed; some energy is dissipated in decay, some is added...circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund of life. There is always a net loss by downhill wash, but this is normally small and offset by the decay... | |
 | Karen Warren - 2000 - 282 pagina’s
...channels which conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil. The circuit is not closed; some energy is dissipated in decay, some is added...circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund of life.39 And in an earlier set of essays ("Wildlife in American Culture"), Leopold writes that "there... | |
 | Karen Warren - 2000 - 282 pagina’s
...channels which conduct energy upward: death and decay return it to the soil. The circuit is not closed: some energy is dissipated in decay, some is added...is stored in soils, peats, and long-lived forests: hut it is a sustained circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund of life.39 And in an earlier... | |
 | Ingrid Leman Stefanovic - 2000 - 264 pagina’s
...of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.... The circuit is not closed .. . but it is a sustained circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund of life" within which humans must find their proper place.3 5 The Deep Ecology movement similarly favors... | |
 | Christopher Belshaw - 2001 - 340 pagina’s
...channels which conduct energy upwards; death and decay return it to the soil. The circuit is not closed; some energy is dissipated in decay, some is added...absorption from the air, some is stored in soils, peats and long lived forests; but it is a sustained circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund of life.26... | |
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Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals. Food chains are the living channels which conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil. The circuit is not closed; some... 
