Sentences with phrase «after a drought»

When the ecosystems in the drought - prone regions don't have enough time to recover after a drought, they begin to fail.

There has been a bright spot for Australian agriculture with beef producers enjoying record prices after drought cut herd numbers and squeezed supply.

Recovery is slower when conditions after a drought are unusually warm, the study notes, which suggests that recovery times will get longer as global temperatures rise.

The city is home to over 1.25 million people, all of whom are feeling the pinch of water restrictions after a drought emergency was called last year.

Analyzing about 500 wells and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) estimated storage, the authors showed a continued depletion of groundwater lasting a full year after drought; this phenomenon was not observed in earlier records before the 21st century.

«They died back temporarily but recovered quickly after the drought ended.»

The two IPOs are part of a recent trend of enterprise software companies going public after drought of several years.

If the long, sad death of Fernando Torres taught us anything, it's not every goal after a drought is the start of a flood; sometimes, it just means he'll carry on being a shower.

Wheat futures in Chicago are up 50 percent in the past year, after drought in Russia and floods in Australia hurt output and sent global food prices surging.

As a result, medium ground finches on the island tended to have smaller beaks after the drought than before.

The study notes that a 99 % population increase since 1950 combined with a 127 % increase in water use has further decreased water availability, making it increasingly difficult to replenish water supplies after a drought.

Surging demand had been a boon to Australian producers after a drought increased cattle slaughter and supply available for export.

With all the discussion about global climate change effects, new research shows that another kind of climate is an important factor in regional pinyon pine tree recovery after drought events — the microclimate.

Variants of one gene had a major effect on rapid changes in beak size after a drought, researchers report in the April 22 Science.

«The study represents our best understanding of how long the trees need to recover after drought disturbances at a broad range,» says Yongguang Zhang, an ecosystems ecologist at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, who was not involved with the work.

«This is the first research to show that declines in tree growth during a drought can significantly reduce long - term tree survival in Southeastern forests for up to a decade after the drought ends,» said Aaron Berdanier, a Ph.D. student in forest ecology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, who led the study

«After a drought occurs, managers may have a couple of years to do something to prevent declines from causing a tree's death,» Berdanier said.

Trees growing on normally wetter sites and those from drought - tolerant species — including the wood and furniture industry staples, loblolly pine and white oak — are better able to recover their pre-drought growth rates after a drought ends.

After a drought on a small, volcanic island of the Pacific archipelago, scientists observing the finches saw the average beak size of one species shrink in just one generation, a shift they consider one of the most dramatic instances of natural selection ever documented.

After a drought revealed the seawall of a Byzantine Empire harbor town near Istanbul, archeologists excavated what was a thriving ancient center.

I've been inspired by Pantone's color of the year choice as well as the revitalized landscape of So Cal after the drought - buster rains we've had this past Fall / Winter to add a bit more.

Petrichor, at CB1 Gallery refers to the atmospheric scent of the first rain after a drought.

In the last fourteen years, Werner has also been the Chairman of the Boston Red Sox, and the club has won 3 World Series after a drought of 86 years.

New research shows forests are slow to recover from droughts, and climate models that overlook recovery time are likely overestimating how much carbon forests can absorb after droughts.

The elite are ripping California to shreds with a drought after drought and subsequent planned wildfires to displace as many as possible.

Some who choose real ones are paying higher prices after the drought pushed up farmers» costs.»

Stock index futures functioned as designed during the 1987 crash, grain futures likewise during the 1988 drought, currencies during the high volatility after the

While lawn restoration seems to be on most homeowners» minds, trees and plants could use some special care after the drought of 2012, too, the two experts say.

After the drought filled summer we have experienced in California it takes on a whole new meaning.

But it adds that this neglect of maintenance came at a cost, and is likely to have led to the increase (up to a trebling in some sites) in numbers of trees dying in the years after the drought.

Paul Pogba scored a worldie and Zlatan Ibrahimovic found himself back among the goals after a drought, but the United away faithful know what a good player Michael...

Changes of leaf water potential and gas exchange during and after drought in triticale and maize genotypes differing in drought tolerance

After the drought ended, streams eroded the land, and transported the bones a short distance, where they were again trampled.

But they also attribute the price fall to a seasonal rise in stock, after a drought of low listings earlier in the year.

The research, published in Nature, maps how much of the Earth's vegetation is recovering after a drought and how recovery times have changed since 1901.

The researchers performed a series of experiments before, during and after the drought to test how pressures from heavy grazing by crabs — the main natural enemy of plants in the protected marshes — affected resilience to and recovery from the drought.

Anderegg's own work, including a study published in July in the journal Science, found that forests absorb less carbon for four years after a drought.

The distribution of this type outside of its area of production was one of the ways that people kept connected during and after the drought.

But after droughts and floods swept the globe in 1997, El Niño was blamed for everything from erratic stock markets to the decline of the coconut harvest in the Philippines.

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally.»

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nate McDowell, a renowned forest ecologist and plant physiologist who coauthored a paper in the journal Nature Plants highlighting this research.

Large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and while theories had suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, a new study confirms the concept with a worldwide survey of 38 forests.

«This means that these forests take up less carbon both during drought and after drought,» study lead author William Anderegg, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Utah and a researcher at Princeton University, said.

After a drought your father, the king, requests that you help save the kingdom.

Increase in the lagged correlation suggests protracted groundwater depletion one year after the drought.

After the drought you should be grateful for the rain.

Trees and plants across the world are increasingly in «recovery mode» after a drought, a new study says, and they're taking longer to bounce... Read More