Sentences with phrase «more aridity»

Not exact matches

It is true that spiritual aridity is widespread in many sectors of our society, but if we look more closely we will see that rather than a dearth there is a superabundance of competing visions.

«One of the main outcomes of this study is that older faunas, linked to environments that were disappearing due to increased aridity at the time, were displaced to the north surviving temporally in local refugia with more humid conditions, particularly in the region of Catalonia and the South of France» adds Manuel Hernández Fernández, professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and senior author of the study.

By July, the animals will be crowding round shrunken rivers and billabongs, the abundance of water replaced by an abundance of aridity — and more controversially, fire and smoke.

But the indirect consequences of heat and aridity may be more pervasive.

Examining the interplay between urban development and water development in Arizona, Kupel argues that the culture that settlers brought with them from the humid Midwest and East proved more important than aridity, environmental sustainability, and differences in ecological settings.

But Stringer and Galway - Witham add that the region may have proved a difficult area to thrive in long term: «There were severe periods of aridity before and after this time, meaning that the region was probably more often a «boulevard of broken dreams» than a stable haven for early humans.»

A computer generated «aridity index» that maps out the dry places (yellow - brown) and the wet places (green) of an Earth - like planet that rotates on its axis much more slowly than Earth.

To the west, the dominant harvest is wheat, which is more resistant to aridity.

By analyzing these proxies, concentrations of atmospheric CO2, oceanic CO2, forest fires, aridity, measurements of sea level and more can be deciphered.

While Midwest states have experienced ever more flooding over the last 50 years, the regions already suffering from extremes of aridity are being warned to expect megadroughts worse than any conditions in the last 1,000 years.

The developed world will be affected, but the developing world will be hurt even more, by increasing aridity, greater temperatures and faster population growth.

Whereas the medieval period is now acknowledged as a time of increased aridity over western North America, it has more generally been known as a period of warmer temperatures, especially over Europe (28, 29).

A more likely contributor to such a shift is increasing aridity — conifers have the advantage in dryer climates, as a broad generalization.