Sentence examples for drought represent from inspiring English sources

Well failure, savannah fires and drought represent persistent risks or hazards to which livestock production in the region is exposed.

Elevated temperatures combined with periods of drought represent a major threat to food security (Sreenivasulu et al., 2007; Barnabas et al., 2008; Brutnell and Frommer, 2012; Sreenivasulu et al., 2012).

Drought represents a major threat to food security.

The drought represented an "unprecedented natural disaster", reported the Rodong Sinmun newspaper, the mouthpiece of the ruling Workers' party.

In this study, a hydrological drought (represented by Standardized Runoff Index (SRI)) prediction method is proposed based on the meta-Gaussian model taking into account the persistence and its prior meteorological drought condition (represented by Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI)).

Drought (represented by the value of Palmer drought severity index < -0.74) and uneven distribution of annual rainfall (represented by the value of coefficient of variation of precipitation > 0.23) tend to enhance the Budyko parameter reduction by large SI (>0.797).

Drought represents one of the most severe limitations on the productivity of rain-fed lowland and upland rice.

Thus, drought represents the major constraint to increase chickpea yield, and drought tolerance therefore is a major aim of chickpea breeding.

An estimated 500,000 people died in Ceará State as a result of the 1877 1879 drought, representing roughly half of the state population.

For example, the 811 genes that were both orthologous and down regulated under drought, represents ~10% of all the rice genes down-regulated following drought stress (all = 8488; Figure 3A; Additional file 2, Table S6).

Drought represents a serious risk to current land use and season-to-season variation in the amount and timing of rainfall and other climatic conditions is a major challenge to crop management and the applicability of new technologies.