Sentence examples for contributing to drought from inspiring English sources

We still don't really know what's contributing to drought resistance.

Now, a series of dams constructed in Turkey since the 1960s have reduced the amount of water and made it saltier, contributing to drought and desertification.

Global warming is almost surely contributing to drought and heat in ways that exacerbate fire risk, but the prime driver of losses in these recent fires is a heavily subsidized burst of development in zones of implicit fire danger.

Hence, identifying secondary traits contributing to drought resistance may improve selection efficiency.

A number of drought stress responsive genes were analyzed (Deyholos 2010; Alter et al. 2015), and genes contributing to drought tolerance were suggested (Bhatnagar-Mathur et al. 2008; Osakabe et al. 2014).

A deep root system able to extract water at depth and respond to evaporative demand, provided there is water in the profile, is the most consensual of the traits contributing to drought avoidance at least in upland conditions (Yoshida and Hasegawa 1982; Nguyen et al. 1997; Price et al. 2002).

But climate change also seems to be contributing to droughts, though the evidence here is weaker.

More recently, studies have begun to address the genetic basis of natural variation in drought-stress responses, in terms of the number, individual effect, and genomic location of loci contributing to drought-related traits (McKay et al. 2008 and references therein).

This review examines the published literature and factors that contribute to drought vulnerability of Northeastern U.S. forests.

Many traits are said to contribute to drought resistance (Ludlow and Muchow 1990; Fukai and Cooper 1995), but none is effective in all agronomic situations.

Maintaining a higher level of antioxidative enzyme activities may contribute to drought induction by increasing the capacity against oxidative damage (Sharma and Dubey [2005]).