A generous cushion of "generic provisions", reserves stored up in the boom times, has helped.
Instead, it depends on energy reserves stored away before entering dormancy.
The state's Department of Water Resources described the unprecedentedly small 2014-15 winter snowpack – the amount of water reserves stored in snow – as "dismally meagre".
They then grow rapidly, using food reserves stored within, flowering and setting seed before soil moisture becomes substantially depleted once more.
Forced to file away the nurturing style of an elementary school teacher, Pfluger dug into her competitive reserves, stored from when she played field hockey at the college.
In fact, gametogenesis can be energetically supported from two sources: reserves stored in the mantle tissue cells (Bayne 1976; Gabbott 1976); directly ingested nutrients (Newell et al. 1982; Thompson 1984); or a combination of both (Barber and Blake 1991).
The long-toed salamander hibernates during the cold winter months, surviving on energy reserves stored in the skin and tail.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, uses a high-pressure mix of water, sand and chemicals to tap into oil and natural gas reserves stored in shale rock.
Increased body weight in males increases the length of time they can fast due to the ample energy reserves stored in the blubber.
They do not eat during this period; instead they rely on fat reserves stored up from heavy feeding in the Strait of Georgia in the late summer.
