Terms for subject Environment (34443 entries) |
climatisation | air conditioning (A system or process for controlling the temperature and sometimes the humidity and purity of the air in a house, etc.) | |
climatologie | climatology (That branch of meteorology concerned with the mean physical state of the atmosphere together with its statistical variations in both space and time as reflected in the weather behaviour over a period of many years) | |
climatologie des plantes | phytoclimatology | |
climatologie des plantes | plant climatology | |
climatologie écologique | ecoclimatology | |
climatologie écologique | ecological climatology | |
climax | climax (A botanical term referring to the terminal community said to be achieved when a sere (a sequential development of a plant community or group of plant communities on the same site over a period of time) achieves dynamic equilibrium with its environment and in particular with its prevailing climate. Each of the world's major vegetation climaxes is equivalent to a biome. Many botanists believe that climate is the master factor in a plant environment and that even if several types of plant succession occur in an area they will all tend to converge towards a climax form of vegetation) | |
cline | character gradient | |
cline | cline | |
cloche à circulation | circulating overshot | |
clochette | Scottish bluebell | |
clochette | harebell | |
clonage | cloning (The production of genetically identical individuals from a single parent. Cloning plants usually involves plant cell culture. Cloning animals is more difficult and relays on some manipulation of their normal reproductive cycle. A clone is a group of organisms of identical genetic constitution, unless mutation occurs, produced from a single individual by asexual reproduction, parthenogenesis or apomixis) | |
clèthre à feuilles d'aulne | sweet pepperbush | |
CNUED | United Nations Conference on Environment and Development | |
CNUED | United Nations' Conference for Environment and Development | |
co-formulant | co-formulant | |
co-formulant | formulant | |
co-incinération | co-incineration (Joint incineration of hazardous waste, in any form, with refuse and/or sludge) | |
co-incinération | co-incineration |