Sentence examples for increased aridity from inspiring English sources

The increased aridity during the middle Holocene was likely caused by increased winter temperatures and enhanced winter evaporation.

Although either increased aridity or a change in precipitation regime could result in increased erosion of terrace scarps, apron aggradation events do not correlate with regional records of aridity.

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).

As a result of this increased aridity, forests continued to be replaced by more open and arid landscapes forcing the mesic species to retreat to the moister Atlantic-influenced areas and to the mountainous regions, leading to high speciation in some groups [ 5, 6].

In southern Europe where naval demands were continuous and sources of suitable timber sharply localized tree cutting entailed, from Classical antiquity onward, serious soil loss through erosion, increased aridity, floods, and marsh formation.

This higher market value with increased aridity is a clear opportunity for diversification of income associated with the drylands' biodiversity.

Increasing aridity in the Sahara is documented in the transition from cattle and horses to camels.

Domestic, yes, but somehow echoing the increasing aridity, sterility and hostility of a world elsewhere, beyond the homely hearth.

Southward and westward the plains yielded under increasing aridity to desert, as old as any other zone in an evolutionary sense and very diverse in species.

"This is a period of major climatic change and increasing aridity in Africa, when a number of different species of potential early Homo ancestors occur, each adapting to these changes in different ways.

A period of increasing aridity beginning in approximately 1100 ce put great stress on these societies, and they abandoned many of their largest settlements by the end of the 14th century.