Sentences with phrase «arid conditions»

Albuquerque cleaning services may bring to mind visions of dusting from the hot air and other arid conditions that exist in New Mexico.

Arid conditions have continued through to the present day.

New research investigating the transition of the Sahara from a lush, green landscape 10,000 years ago to the arid conditions found today, suggests that humans may have played an active role in its desertification.

Then the arid conditions abruptly reappeared about 5,500 years ago as the particularly hot Sahara summers moderated.

The convergence of prolonged warming and arid conditions suggests the mid-12th century may serve as a conservative analogue for severe droughts that might occur in the future.

The potential adoption area could be increased to include arid regions, as many tropical staple trees like mesquite are suited to arid conditions.

In general, cool SSTs in the eastern tropical Pacific (La Niña conditions) tend to induce arid conditions in the Southwest, whereas warmer SSTs (El Niño conditions) are associated with relatively wet conditions [18,19].

The arid conditions found along the western coasts of continents in subtropical latitudes are further enhanced by the influence of the equatorward surface air flow on the ocean currents.

Air forced up the slopes of mountain barriers is often sufficiently moist to produce considerable precipitation on windward sides of mountains, whereas subsiding air on the lee slopes produces more - arid conditions.

California is experiencing warmer baseline conditions, driven by climate change, that have increased the frequency and severity of arid conditions in California, and increased the chance that low rainfall years will produce drought.

Warmer temperatures evaporate critically important snowpack, convert snow to rain, and dry out soils, which increases the frequency and severity of arid conditions in California.

Surface mining techniques are even more damaging, both in regions such as Central Appalachia, where mountaintop removal methods are deployed, and in deserts and prairies, where arid conditions make reclamation and restoration of underground water supplies difficult.

The chart's green curve indicates that those periods with less precipitation (i.e. droughts) are more common when cooler temps prevail - more arid conditions, with less food production make people (and societies) rather restless.

The key threat here involves the expansion of hot and arid conditions into areas that currently sustain large populations: failure of other animal and plant species (including those farmed for food) to adapt quickly enough to such changes and subsequent ecosystem / agricultural collapses would obviously have massive impacts upon us.

Actually, civilization «collapse» in the Holocene is often related to changes in precipitation (to more arid conditions) rather than temperature:

It seems reasonable to suppose that in the past, the return to cold, arid conditions was always a time of population crash, with fierce, to - the - death competition for diminishing resources as each group or clan fought for survival.

The state plays host to arid conditions in the interior, tropical in the north and Mediterranean in the lower south.

Sometimes the arid conditions make the ground too hard to soak up much water, so flash floods can wreak havoc on the area.

Arid conditions, South Africa traditionally.

Baobab — this is the common name given to a species of trees known as Adansonia, the majority of which are native to Africa (meaning that they are an extremely hardy species which can tolerate dry, arid conditions).

As the pine tree possesses the aptitude to endure extreme cold as well as comparatively arid conditions, it can grow well and thrive in various different regions.

After 23 hours, the viruses in the dampest conditions were all dead, while 60 % of those under the most arid conditions were still alive.

Allred et al. (2013) suggest that native grazers may be better suited in the northern Great Plains than domestic cattle, citing different grazing behaviors in arid conditions.

In Australia, at CSIRO plant Industry in Canberra, Richard Richards has bred drought tolerant wheat varieties called Vigour X-25 and Drysdale that yield 10 % to 20 % gains in arid conditions.

New research investigating the transition of the Sahara from a lush, green landscape 10,000 years ago to the arid conditions found today, suggests that humans may have played an active role in its desertification.

And in all but the most arid conditions, refuse becomes wet no matter what the dump's design.

Despite the extremely arid conditions, camels still provide enough milk for human consumption and also have an important role as a source of meat.

MUMMIFIED The 6 - inch - long body of a fetal mummy known as Ata, who scientists now say was a female, was preserved due to the arid conditions of Chile's Atacama Desert.

The rare arid conditions of Timna have resulted in unparalleled preservation of organic materials usually destroyed by the march of time: bones, seeds, fruits, and even fabric dating back to the 10th century B.C. Using a technique called «wet sieving,» the archaeologists found miniscule animal and fish bones, evidence of a rich and diverse diet.

b) In dry and arid conditions the eucalypt has the ability to turn its leaves on their edges, so as to reduce evaporation.

The crater is in such pristine condition because it is geologically young (current estimates put the age at less than 5000 years) and because it escaped significant weathering, as it formed when extremely arid conditions were already prevalent in this remote part of Egypt.

The northern sub-species, for its part, is likely to encounter more extreme arid conditions that could shrink its overall distribution area during remissions.

Yet in cool, arid conditions, such as dry caves, excreted feces can preserve bacterial DNA for centuries.

References Almroth SG, Bidinger P. No need for water supplementation for exclusively breastfed infants under hot and arid conditions.

Not exact matches

Morocco's sunshine and arid climate, as well as the abundance of olive oil, have provided the perfect conditions for the development of harissa.

The arid and harsh conditions at this extreme altitude result in difficult growing conditions in which only the strongest quinoa can survive, and thrive.

«Our cooling technology can be easily tailored for all types of weather conditions, from humid climate in the tropics to arid climate in the deserts.

Using NASA rain and vegetation data, researchers can track when and where arid lands begin to green, and for the first time anticipate if zebras will make the trek or, if the animals find poor conditions en route, understand why they will turn back.

In a study of accuracy and durability, the device was tested on two different groups of athletes: one cycling indoors in a fitness center under controlled conditions and the other participating in the El Tour de Tucson, a long - distance bicycle race in arid and complex conditions.

At this time, there was a marked change from warm and relatively humid global conditions to colder and arid environments.

Recently published paleoclimate data show that conditions in the Near East became more arid during the latter half of the 7th century BC.

Biologists assume, for example, that the spotted hyena is now found in savannas and arid regions of Africa and the Middle East because it is perfectly adapted to their specific conditions, such as high temperatures and aridity.

In Australia, a recently discovered cave site has shown that large - bodied mammals («megafauna») were able to persist even in the arid landscape of the Nullarbor in conditions similar to now.

Increased mortality, although may be driven by indirect effects; patterns of mortality will be dependent on initial stand and local site conditions, but more arid regions more susceptible

Others grow in harsh conditions, arid uplands to moist tropical settings.

Located on the dry arid North East coast, this area offers gentle diving conditions suitable for your first experience of the amazing underwater world.

the north which includes the Atacama Desert which is characterized by arid and dry conditions.

Take an Arid Recovery tag - a-long tour to an 86 square kilometre reserve, which uses a unique feral proof fence design to protect a patch of desert and restore it to pre - European condition.

In Guanajuato, you can visit the family home of the artist Diego Rivera which is now a museum, as well as one of the creepiest attractions of Mexico, the Guanajuato mummy museum where you can see bodies that were disinterred from the local cemetery and found to have mummified due to the arid climate and soil... MORE conditions.

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