Sentence examples for extreme aridity from inspiring English sources

Generally moderate, the climate is characterized by stable temperatures with extreme aridity.

There are few rivers in this area because of its extreme aridity, particularly in its central section.

Areas defined as uninhabitable include those areas covered by ice sheets, glaciers, and ice fields, and areas of extreme aridity.

Many types of seeds may be sown in open ground and, barring extreme wetness or extreme aridity, germinate well enough for practical purposes.

Pollen records from Lake Malawi, Africa spanning the last 135 kyr show substantial and abrupt vegetation response to multiple episodes of extreme aridity between 135 and 75 ka.

"The camel and its load-carrying saddle proved an effective weapon against heat and drought even in the worst years, when extreme aridity affected cattle people living far south of the desert," Mr. Fagan writes.

Its first project will be a comprehensive catalog of all organisms around the Dead Sea--initially, plants and microbes--with an emphasis on how they handle the extreme heat, aridity, and salinity.

Given the changing global climate, coupled with expected increase in evapotranspiration due to increased temperatures, the ASALs are expected to experience frequent climatic extremes, increased aridity, increased water stress, diminished yields from rain-fed agriculture and increased food insecurity and malnutrition (Thornton and Lipper 2014).

The newer of the two suggests that the long-term drying trend in East Africa was punctuated by episodes of short, alternating periods of extreme humidity and aridity.

These foreign genes have endowed bdelloids with talents that no other animal can boast, which could help explain their ability to shrug off extreme conditions of aridity.

Physiological tolerance to environmental sources of stress, such as extreme temperature and aridity, influences the geographic range of many organisms and can limit an organisms' rate of spread.