Sentence examples for vulnerable to runoff from inspiring English sources

Similar to the MAF vulnerability figure, watersheds in the upper, right quadrant were both valuable for hydropower generation and vulnerable to runoff timing changes associated with climate warming.

The Kings, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne all have capacity to produce considerable hydropower and were consistently vulnerable to runoff timing change.

Foot and vehicle traffic compresses soil, making it less porous and more vulnerable to water runoff.

Take steps to minimize this effect: Foot and vehicle traffic compresses soil, making it less porous and more vulnerable to water runoff.

However, both wells are vulnerable to pollution from runoff and periodical removal of debris is necessary.

Our study, that forms the first report on atmosphere land water C linkages in Ganga River and identifies region-specific landscape elements which are more vulnerable to AD inputs and runoff C transfer, suggests the need for large-scale inter-regional time series data on carbon balance as influenced by land use change and increasing AD-OC inputs.

First, tropical dry forests are well known for stressful abiotic conditions (i.e., they are vulnerable to loss of soil nutrients due to runoff or erosion and have low moisture availability due to high ET and elevated temperatures).

The system appears to be vulnerable to regime switching following changes in runoff rates, erosion rates and changes in the coupling characteristics of the system.

Despite their sturdy appearance, reefs are vulnerable to environmental threats such as agricultural runoff, ocean acidification, and predators such as the crown of-thorns starfish, all of whicrown of-thornscomplex waystarfish

In this region, snowmelt-runoff drives c. 80% of annual runoff and is potentially vulnerable to warming temperatures and changes in precipitation amount and phase.

In addition, aquatic ecosystems are very vulnerable to climate change, which can affect water runoff regimes, seasonality of water availability and air temperature, which in turn cycles directly back to changes in water temperature [14].