- land use
- Anthropogenic utilisation of vegetation and soils and their transformation
- ledge
- A narrow flat surface or shelf that projects from a wall of rock
- lee
- Wind shade (little wind)
- lee-side
- Side situated away from the wind
- lentic waters
- Standing waters such as lakes or ponds
- lichen
- An organism formed by the symbiotic association of a fungus and an algae and/or cyanobacterium
- lithic
- For soils, lithic means usually having continuous hard rock within 10 cm of the soil surface.
- lithosphere
- The brittle uppermost shell of the earth, broken into a number of tectonic plates. The lithosphere consists of the heavy oceanic or lighter continental crust, and the uppermost portion of the mantle.
- luv
- Exposed to wind (windy)
- lysimeter
- A container with soil and vegetation originally used to study the loss of dissolved mineral nutrients by deep seepage (hence the name). Commonly used today to determine evapotranspiration by repeated weighing
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