Sentence examples for arid communities from inspiring English sources

This article promotes reflection on the complex processes involved in construction of the dynamic, specialized medical-veterinary system in arid communities, and the importance of local veterinary solutions for herders living in limited and changing conditions.

In this study, we test the predictions that biotic interactions between EFN plants and ants are abundant and common also in arid communities and that EFNs are only functional when new vegetative and reproductive structures are developing.

Nonetheless, in the long-term, aboveground production of herbaceous arid communities is most strongly correlated with annual precipitation [ 70], which is also shown by the tight correlation of community biomass with annual precipitation along the climate gradient (see Validation, below).

This is no easy feat, especially on the desert sands of the arid community in which she lives.

Naturally low N levels may contribute to why some terrestrial ecosystems, such as calcareous and sandy grasslands (Kolb et al. 2002) and arid and semi-arid communities (McLendon and Redente 1991; Brooks 2003), have low cover of non-natives.

It is evident that woody plant populations have a high degree of resilience, that density dependence or interference appears to limit plant size in arid shrub communities, and that shrub populations had not reached any stable equilibrium state at the time of treatment in the 1930s.

Potential habitats are likely to increase in the United States for oak/hickory, oak/pine, ponderosa pine, and arid woodland communities.

These results showed that there is an positive interaction effects for plant diversity and soil water content in the semi-arid grassland communities.

The selected NPMR models reasonably reflected the unique climate niche for each species and the arid shrub community type, and adequately predicted species distributions in our study area based on AUC results (range 0.81 0.93 for all but mountain shrub) for the validation datasets of presence and absence locations (Table 4).

Hierarchical analytical techniques can help identify structural patterns within arid land plant communities, species distributions, and vegetation environment relationships.

Desalination of water can be achieved via the use of solar stills, especially as they are considered to be the cheapest option for potable water production in remote, arid and small communities with limited availability of freshwater.