Sentence examples for subsequent droughts from inspiring English sources

Some large high severity fires occurred in these areas during the 1950s drought, and subsequent droughts, but the largest total areas burned in forests were an order of magnitude smaller than the largest fires today.

With a longer time frame now available, we can examine whether the forest recovered from the drought or was further impacted by subsequent droughts, as we suggested might happen (Condit 1998a).

Wetter periods (often associated with El Nino years (Swetnam and Betancourt 1998)) produced bountiful forage and encouraged rapid growth in herd sizes which overwhelmed the grasslands during subsequent droughts.

Importantly, it was found that the same sites that suffered high tree mortality in 1996 also suffered the highest mortality in 2002 (Mueller and others 2005), suggesting that subsequent droughts reinforced tree mortality patterns established during earlier droughts.

Kang, G. et al. Proteomics reveals the effects of salicylic acid on growth and tolerance to subsequent drought stress in wheat.

These results indicate that sunlight irradiance at which container-grown ash trees grow in the nursery may tightly affect the tolerance to subsequent drought stress.

Here we tested the hypothesis that the irradiance at which plants grow in the nursery may impact on their responses to a subsequent drought stress.

The study also expanded the geographic range of impact of a subsequent drought (1149 1167 ce) documented in the dendrochronological record of the American Southwest.

Fuchslueger L, Bahn M, Hasibeder R, Kienzl S, Fritz K, Schmitt M, et al. Drought history affects grassland plant and microbial carbon turnover during and after a subsequent drought event.

"We had expected the forest canopy to bounce back after a year with a new flush of leaf growth, but the damage appeared to persist right up to the subsequent drought in 2010," said study co-author Yadvinder Malhi of Oxford University.

During the lush 1998 El Niño growing season and the subsequent drought of 1999, the researchers measured plant size, density, and seed production on the plots.