Sentences with phrase «seasonal drought»

The key result of the study is that with longer dry seasons and more intense seasonal drought, there is an overall negative effect on bird populations.

In our previous articles we've looked at mechanisms to understand why that is — increased evaporation, increasing seasonal droughts, and an important vegetation - climate feedback.

«That one seemed to have a favorable reaction to changes in seasonal drought.

Climate prediction centers generate and routinely disseminate seasonal drought outlooks.

On Thursday, the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) released its latest seasonal drought forecast for the U.S..

Inverse modelling of seasonal drought effects on canopy CO2 / H2O exchange in three Mediterranean Ecosystems.

During more than a decade of observation, grapevines in Napa, Calif., and Bordeaux, France, never reached lethal levels of dehydration from seasonal drought, researchers report online January 31 in Science Advances.

Next, they tested tolerance to drought during the seedling growth period because this period often overlaps with seasonal drought.

In Texas, it is now being reported, indications are of many lost crops and lost beef production due to a drier regional climate (see graphic above for latest seasonal drought trend).

We've seen before how climate change (due to relatively strong northern hemisphere warming) could lead to a northward migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)-- promoting seasonal droughts in the (southern) Amazon basin.

The Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Miller) forest in Yatir, Israel, is such an extreme case, with a mean annual precipitation of 285 mm and 6 — 8 months of continuous seasonal drought (Grünzweig et al. 2003, Rotenberg and Yakir 2010).

This low precipitation period, on top of the steady seasonal drought, permitted an extreme drought stress study that acknowledges the important role of climate extremes (rather than changes in the mean) in tree function (Reyer et al. 2012).

Decades later, tropical forest ecologists began reporting that some tree species are sensitive to more intense seasonal drought.

Vines are becoming increasingly abundant in tropical forests as a result of climate change and severe seasonal drought and their rapid growth is harming trees and impacting carbon storage, a new study has revealed.

Dry conditions will continue across eastern Montana, western North Dakota and western South Dakota through October, the U.S. Climate Predication Center said in a seasonal drought outlook report issued last week.

New in this research is the recognition that seasonal droughts are equally important.

As global temperatures rise, seasonal droughts increase, and part of the rainforest could switch — either to a seasonal forest or savanna state.

«The Amazon rainforest has already entered a dieback, in which the vicious cycle between land use (cattle ranching, logging), seasonal drought, and fire are rapidly degrading enormous swathes of rainforest each year.