Sentences with phrase «recovering after a drought»

«The study represents our best understanding of how long the trees need to recover after drought disturbances at a broad range,» says Yongguang Zhang, an ecosystems ecologist at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, who was not involved with the work.

The research, published in Nature, maps how much of the Earth's vegetation is recovering after a drought and how recovery times have changed since 1901.

Not exact matches

In the study, they examined how the next generation of pinyon pine trees were recovering after a severe drought in 2002 - 2004 caused widespread mortality in adult trees.

Regrowth of trees explains why grasslands in western Africa known as the Sahel have recovered after devastating droughts in the 1970s and 1980s, according to South Dakota State University professor Niall Hanan.

«They died back temporarily but recovered quickly after the drought ended.»

Trees growing on normally wetter sites and those from drought - tolerant species — including the wood and furniture industry staples, loblolly pine and white oak — are better able to recover their pre-drought growth rates after a drought ends.

The study surprisingly found that reduced habitat fragmentation helped the butterflies recover more quickly after the 1995 drought than simply having a larger habitat in the first place.

Cunene region, where torrential rainfall is recovering the flora of the region after more than a year of drought

New research shows forests are slow to recover from droughts, and climate models that overlook recovery time are likely overestimating how much carbon forests can absorb after droughts.

After the economic crisis created a drought of home sales and declining prices from the fourth quarter of 2008 through the first quarter of 2009, the market began to recover in the spring due to pent - up demand and improved affordability.