Sentences with phrase «hydraulic failure»

The more readily a plant or tree develops hydraulic failure, the more susceptible it is to drought.

A lot of the time tree mortality in the tropics is caused by either carbon starvation brought on by a lack of food, or hydraulic failure caused by a lack of water.

A suspension failure in qualifying left him down in 15th, and he was chasing the two Williams for the final points positions in the race when an apparent hydraulic failure left him coasting back to the pits to retire.

He snatched the lead at the start from fourth on the grid and was holding off teammate Alonso, but he had to retire with hydraulics failure.

These embolisms block the flow of water, leading to a phenomenon called hydraulic failure.

Drought will not leave your glass empty: Low risk of hydraulic failure revealed by long - term drought observations in world's top wine regions.

To study how Amazonian trees responded to drought, Santiago's team plucked branches from the tops of trees in French Guiana's Paracou Research Station and studied them in a lab to determine how readily they develop hydraulic failure, which is a function of their physics, including the dimensions of their plumbing and the pressure their vessels can withstand.

He might have had a chance to get off the mark at his home race at Silverstone but his car suffered a hydraulic failure on the warm - up lap.

The group's initial findings weren't positive, because commonly used experiments indicated that the tropical trees were much more susceptible to hydraulic failure than temperate trees.

Though confronted by a variety of threats, tree mortality in the tropics often boils down to two phenomena: «Carbon starvation» due to lack of food and «hydraulic failure» due to a lack of water.

Even with the closure of their stomata, plants still lose water when it's hot, and hydraulic failure — a lack of water a tree needs to survive — poses at least as much a threat as carbon starvation.

«This new meta - analysis sheds important light on this issue by telling us that trees are more - or-less all sensitive to the same thing during drought — hydraulic failure.

These include damage caused by pests, changes in vegetation that occur after wildfires, and «hydraulic failure» — plant deaths caused by an inability to take up water through their roots.