Sentences with phrase «arid environments»

This increased water use efficiency of C4 grasses means that soil moisture is conserved, allowing them to grow for longer in arid environments.

And suburbs in arid environments might use gardens to shade their residents.

Also adding lawn irrigation actually may be cooling some cities in arid environments.

Hominids in arid environments, see Kaye E. Reed, «Early hominid evolution and ecological change through the African Plio - Pleistocene,» Journal of Human Evolution 32:289 - 322 (1997).

Many are adapted to arid environments,....

«In Australia, our native vegetation is superbly adapted to surviving in arid environments and it consequently uses water very efficiently,» said Dr. Randall Donohue, a CSIRO research scientist.

Journal of Arid Environments 46: 357 - 369.

CO2 fertilisation has increased maximum foliage cover across the globe's warm, arid environments.

David, I suspect PA has been influenced by the following study: Randall J. Donohue, Tim R. McVicar, Michael L. Roderick, Graham D. Farquhar, «Impact of CO2fertilization on maximum foliage cover across the globe's warm, arid environments», Geophysical Research Letters Volume 40, Issue 12, pages 3031 — 3035, 28 June 2013 DOI: 10.1002 / grl.50563

All but 18 states have some utility - scale solar PV capacity, but only three states (California, Arizona, and Nevada) have utility - scale solar thermal resources, as these systems often require large, contiguous tracts of land in arid environments.

I believe the findings were confined to warm, arid environments.

When travelling in Gran Canaria you will discover many oases emerging from the dry and arid environments.

In arid environments where rabbits do not occur, native rodents are taken.

Herps from temperate or more arid environments (bearded dragons, leopard geckos and cornsnakes) do best on bedding that remains dry.

Flea eggs desiccate and die in arid environments.

This is a problem in arid environments.

Students are introduced to a number of ways of managing arid environments, not all of which are pro-poor.

Human and physical opportunities and challenges for mineral extraction in arid environments, including inaccessibility and climatic and political factors

Physical and chemical weathering in hot arid environments, and erosion, transportation and deposition by wind and water

Global - scale distribution of cold and high altitude environments (polar, glacial areas, periglacial areas, high mountains in non-polar places) and hot arid environments (hot deserts and semi-arid areas)

Students are introduced to a number of ways of mangaging arid environments, not all of which are pro-poor.

This pages provides resources and lesson ideas on opportunities and challenges of agriculture, in extreme environments, predominantly hot arid environments.

The wind blows over arid environments creating a fresh canvas at the light break of the sun.

arid environments, the OSL dating method is superior to the radiocarbon dating method, as it eliminates a common old - carbon error problem.

The awards ceremony will be held in Riyadh on 6 January 2013, concurrently with the 5th International Conference on Water Resources and Arid Environments (ICWRAE 5), which will run from 7 - 9 January 2013.

Journal of Arid Environments.

With approximately 15 % of the world's population living in desert regions, Wright stresses the importance of his findings: «the implications for how we change ecological systems have a direct impact on whether humans will be able to survive indefinitely in arid environments.»

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

Unlike catfish that ambush pigeons at the water's edge, lesser salmon catfish may just be eating mice drowned when their nests in river banks collapse, says Erin Kelly of Murdoch University, Perth, who led the study (Journal of Arid Environments, doi.org/bpwq).

While the focus of this research was on Chaco Canyon, the researchers found the conclusions for water management systems and kinship mobility relevant to modern urban centers built in arid environments anywhere and anytime in the world.

The findings show for the first time how the highly evolved bryophyte survives in extremely arid environments thanks in part to its specialized water collection and transportation toolkit.

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

«Using treated graywater for irrigation is better for arid environments.»

For example, the combination of a peat pot and a loose mix might work well in humid areas, but could dry out too quickly in arid environments.

The baboons» home is the Namib desert, the most arid environment known to be inhabited by a nonhuman -LSB-...]

He framed Wyoming's efforts as a natural response to the state's arid environment.

Due to its harsh arid environment, the nopalea cactus fruit of the Sonoran Desert has the highest concentration of betalains of any plant on earth!

Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock provides an interesting analogue: fast - ripening little girls lost, wilting in an arid environment.

Tony (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his wife and daughter, together with the other characters imagined by Edward, seem imprisoned by this arid environment, a framing device that translates the novel's inherent trashiness.

With its arid environment, nothing ever rusts, unless you foolishly park on a moisture farm.

The bright colors and designs on expanses of raw linen bring to mind Moholy - Nagy's paintings of the 1920s, which prominently featured similar unpainted grounds, but might just as well originate from Ore - Giron's coming - of - age in Tucson, Arizona, an arid environment in which color always pops in the brown landscape.

I stepped into the highlands of Namibia and saw the desertification of the place, the arid environment reminding man of the loss of water in places once considered the source of water, and a looming submerging of the coastal areas in the event of a large scale heating of the outer planet leading to the accelerated melting of the ice caps.

Usually it's thought to live in wet environments, like ground beef, raw chicken, even leafy vegetables; but now we know it can survive in an arid environment.

Seed germination, seedling traits, and seed bank of the tree Moringa peregrina (Moringaceae) in a hyper - arid environment

Not exact matches

Four different thin film solar PV technologies were tested by the MIT experts across three types of environment in the U.S.: Arid (Arizona); temperate (South Dakota); and humid (Florida).

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This may have been an adaptation to new environments and endurance hunting, as early Homo species left the forests and moved on to more arid African savannahs,» says lead author Dr Manuel Will from Cambridge's Department of Archaeology, and a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College.

Aardvark burrows: a potential resource for animals in arid and semi-arid environments.

Borax exists most commonly in arid climes, which implies that the environment that spawned life on the ancient Earth might have been far drier than previously envisioned.

Not much is known about what happens in these transitional savanna ecosystems located between more arid and wetter climate zones, information critical to their management,» said lead author J. Tyler Fox, who earned his doctorate in fish and wildlife conservation in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment in 2016.