Sentence examples for during drought years from inspiring English sources

Farms also receive a small federal subsidy during drought years.

A proposal to store surplus Colorado River water beneath the Mojave Desert and pump it to Southern California during drought years was narrowly rejected today by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

Kgosikoma (2006) found a similar trend in the same study area especially during drought years.

In this study, the goat population was moderately associated with mean annual precipitation and basically decreased during drought years.

Several sites switched from a net sink to a source of carbon or remained carbon neutral during drought years.

Animals seemed to disappear during drought years, when they apparently hid in underground burrows, only to reappear in wetter years.

However, during spring, the relationship between stocking rate and sward structure differed according to year, impact of grazing being greater during drought year.

The former Labor government bought back a lot of water during the drought years, with some financially-distressed farmers selling permanent water licences on the assumption they could buy temporary licences in the future.

Non-crusted dune crests may thus serve as preferential habitats (fertility belts) for perennial plants, providing refugia for shrubs during frequent drought years.

And, so far at least, while these droughts have reversed the carbon sink during individual drought years such as 2005 and 2010 [20 , 24 41], they have not yet done so on a sustained basis.

It is concluded that while sufficient AWC was present at CR to sustain most of the perennial shrubs also during frequent drought years, insufficient moisture was retained at ID to sustain most perennials.