Sentences with phrase «desiccation in»

Tree loss from Carmen Revenga et al., Watersheds of the World (Washington, DC: World Resources Institute and Worldwatch Institute, 1998); Wong Hangchang, «Deforestation and Desiccation in China: A Preliminary Study,» study for the Beijing Center for Environment and Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing: 1999).

At the same time, drying and warming trends were associated with alluviation of streams and general desiccation in southern Europe and North Africa.

Not exact matches

After reading new research about the issue of «crop desiccation» done by using glyphosate on wheat and other grains just prior to harvest, Tropical Traditions decided to first test some commercial wheat products with wheat grown in Montana, North Dakota, and Canada.

Soil cover with specially selected valuable crops, avoidance of erosion and desiccation, target - oriented organic fertilization, avoidance of competition for water in the area of the fine roots.

In regions with continental climate, soils are subject to desiccation, meaning climate change will aggravate problems of salinity, erosion, and desertification.

The desiccation of a remote island lake in Central Asia is one of the world's worst ecological disasters.

In response to stress such as extreme temperatures, nutrient starvation, or desiccation (extreme dryness), some Gram - positive bacteria can form tough spores and survive for thousands of years in the environmenIn response to stress such as extreme temperatures, nutrient starvation, or desiccation (extreme dryness), some Gram - positive bacteria can form tough spores and survive for thousands of years in the environmenin the environment.

And, in a postscript, he wonders why nobody is being held to account for these excesses — from the desiccation of the Aral Sea to Chernobyl — that have left millions of people, as well as the landscape, maimed.

The sphere of daily life for Marsh Arab women has shrunk as the natural resources they traditionally cultivated have vanished, reports an international team of researchers in «Effects of Mesopotamian Marsh (Iraq) desiccation on the cultural knowledge and livelihood of Marsh Arab women,» published today in the March 2016 issue of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, a joint journal of the Ecological Society of America and Ecological Society of China.

Thrips protect their offspring from desiccation, the first known example of this behavior in insects

«We think this glassy mixture is trapping [other] desiccation - sensitive proteins and other biological molecules and locking them in place, physically preventing them from unfolding, breaking apart or aggregating together,» says Boothby.

Multiple components distributed on the chromosomes and megaplasmid that contribute to the ability of D. radiodurans to survive under conditions of starvation, oxidative stress, and high amounts of DNA damage were identified.Deinococcus radiodurans represents an organism in which all systems for DNA repair, DNA damage export, desiccation and starvation recovery, and genetic redundancy are present in one cell.

Old Soaker is crisscrossed with polygons identical in appearance to desiccation features on Earth.

In early 2017 scientists announced the discovery of possible desiccation cracks in Gale Crater, which was filled by lakes 3.5 billion years agIn early 2017 scientists announced the discovery of possible desiccation cracks in Gale Crater, which was filled by lakes 3.5 billion years agin Gale Crater, which was filled by lakes 3.5 billion years ago.

The MIS 5a palaeosol is overlain by massive sands, representing a major change in the depositional regime, which we interpret as evidence for climatic desiccation at the start of the last glacial period (MIS 4), which would be consistent with other dated records for the region [13], [16], [18], [30].

Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that survive extreme desiccation on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.

The role of phospholipid headgroup composition and trehalose in the desiccation tolerance of Caenorhabditis elegans.

My main interests in research has been life history evolution and eco-physiological adaptations in desiccation tolerance of so - called anhydrobiotic organisms, with particular focus on tardigrades.

«Glyphosate residues are found in wheat due to the increasingly widespread practice of staging and desiccation of wheat right before harvest,» the researchers wrote.

Another point to keep in mind is that while no GMO wheat currently exists on the market, most conventional wheat is toxic due to widespread desiccation practices using glyphosate based herbicides during harvesting.

This dramatically changes what was in solution so that what is observed using the TEM now has little relationship to what was in the solution before desiccation.

After reading new research about the issue of «crop desiccation» done by using glyphosate on wheat and other grains just prior to harvest, Tropical Traditions decided to first test some commercial wheat products with wheat grown in Montana, North Dakota, and Canada.

Once deposited in the soil, they are highly resistant to desiccation by environmental factors such as temperature extremes and sunlight and can remain viable for years.

The Center for Land Use Interpretation and Simparch will present the panel «Inundation and Desiccation: On the Edge in America», a discussion about floodscapes and deserts.

The equatorial regions now began a marked desiccation, with a drop in level of all the great African lakes.

For the purpose of this study the term «desiccation» refers to the gradual reduction of water resources in a geographical region.

This warming and desiccation trend is evident also in the subtropics of the Southern Hemisphere.

In Machakos, people farm the front lines of desiccation.

A ventilation hose with a small fan speeds the drying of the waste and helps it along in the desiccation process.

Soil Desiccation - as a result of rising global areas under extreme drought and heatwave, was first observed in the 1990s.

Yet in view of the entirely predictable erosion of sink capacity (by forest loss & combustion, soils» desiccation, permafrost melt, and oceans» warming and acidification) that notion appears to be an outstanding example of optimism bias.

In order of seniority, the seven feedbacks that seem outstanding are: Water vapour — rising by ~ 7 % per 1.0 C of warming; Albedo loss — due mostly to cryosphere decline; Microbial peat - bog decay — due to rising CO2 affecting ecological dynamics; Desiccation of tropical and temperate soils — due to SAT rise and droughts; Permafrost melt — due to SAT rise plus loss of snow cover, etc; Forest combustion — due to SAT rise, droughts, pest responses, etc; Methyl clathrates [aka methane hydrates] now threatened by rising sea - temperatures, increased water column mixing, etc..

You admit desiccation and population loss in the Sahara and Mesopotamia — do you believe this involved any temperature rise?

In fact we can quite easily blame ongoing desiccation for the downfall of Islamic civilization and the rise of Christianity — the population of North Africa dwindled to nearly nothing, cutting off the Maghrib from Baghdad, leaving great cities like Timbuctu as minor outposts, and leaving cities like Sabratha empty.

In 1989 cracking appeared in blocks 9 — 12, caused by desiccation of the subsoil by the action of encroaching roots from the defendant's plane treIn 1989 cracking appeared in blocks 9 — 12, caused by desiccation of the subsoil by the action of encroaching roots from the defendant's plane trein blocks 9 — 12, caused by desiccation of the subsoil by the action of encroaching roots from the defendant's plane tree.

• Proficient in diagnosing and managing deficiencies associated with soil disease, desiccation, and winter kill.

The in - house background screening should also have training in the non-discriminatory use of background screening information, knowledge of the job desiccation and use objective methods that are the same for all candidates for each type of position.