Sentences with phrase «arid during»

Most of these areas had been dry savanna or arid during the last glacial period.

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

According to results reported Friday in the journal Science, the South American tropics, long thought to have been arid during the last Ice Age, may have in fact been wet.

The area is arid during most of the year, but there is a fair head of game.

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Others think it's an arid valley that developed pools during the rainy seasons.

In warmer lands, such as tropical, subtropical and arid lands, deciduous plants may lose their leaves during dry seasons or during times when there are changes in rainfall.

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

During drought in arid environments, deer are absent, but as soon as it rains, they travel great distances to eat sprouting vegetation.

During the last ice age (which peaked about 21,000 years ago), he suggested, most of the forest became arid grassland.

Punta Tombo is so arid that it gets an average of only 4 inches (100 mm) of rain during the six - month breeding season and, sometimes, no rain falls at all.

Grapevines hate wet feet and do best in arid areas where temperatures don't dip below 12 ˚ or 13 ˚ Celsius during the growing season, or spike above 22 ˚ C. Sunlight is important too.

The Central Iberian Peninsula was characterised by a very arid savanna during the middle Miocene, according to a study led by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) that compares the mammal assemblages from different localities in Africa and South Asia with those that inhabited the Iberian central area 14 million years ago.

The squirrel tree frog, or Hyla squirella, lives in coastal forests from North Carolina to Texas and works hard to conserve what meager supplies of water it can scrounge during the arid southern autumn.

It remains unclear what happened to these hominins during the arid and hyper - arid periods of the Late Pleistocene.

So the question is: Where did all that water come from during the arid Amazonian?

Four pre-Columbian regions in arid to semi-arid deserts were compared with three sub-polar North Atlantic islands during Norse occupation.

During the ensuing Holocene (10000 y ago until the present), cereal grains were rarely consumed as year round staples by most worldwide hunter - gatherers (32,33), except by certain groups living in arid and marginal environments (32,34).

In contrast to the volcanic peaks and lush green vegetation of the majority of the archipelago, Sumba has a landscape of mainly dry and arid limestone hills, and the best time to visit is during the dry season between May and September.

Namaqualand is famous for the exquisite wild flowers that burst from its arid soil during spring.

That is why humid areas have less of a temperature drop than arid areas during the night.

The Nile, like the other great rivers of Africa (notably, the Congo, Niger, and Sénégal), became very reduced, if not totally blocked, by silt and desert sand during the low - precipitation, arid phases of the Pleistocene.

Mankind has actually found an efficient way to combat desert and drought: Arid Areas Greening Because of Higher CO2 Levels «Researchers predicted foliage would increase by 5 to 10 percent given the 14 percent increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration during the study period.

By slowing the runoff during the brief rainy season, these small dams nourish vegetation, crucial in slowing the growth of arid lands.

In arid climates, during the heat of the day, temperatures will soar much higher than in tropical climates.

You can find similar types of droughts in the tree ring records during the 1100s and 1200s when most of Western North America was really arid.

During the last century, mean precipitation in all four seasons of the year has tended to decrease in all the main arid and semi-arid regions of the world, e.g., northern Chile and the Brazilian North - East, West Africa and Ethiopia, the drier parts of Southern Africa and Western China (Folland et al., 2001).