Collocations withdrought
These are words often used in combination withdrought.
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drought conditions
Agricultural intensification in answer to drought conditions could not, or did not, include many drought-related agricultural features, such as terracing and irrigation.
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drought mitigation
Conventional producer welfare theory is applied to the problem of valuing drought mitigation.
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drought relief
A substantial part of this budget category is actually transfer payments related to drought relief, which is clearly not an investment.
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drought stress
Future global warming may also have an impact by increasing drought stress and mortality among defoliated trees.
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drought tolerance
These accessions scored between 3 and 5 for proportional soil cover, used to estimate drought tolerance in the late dry season.
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exceptional drought
There has been exceptional cold, exceptional drought, exceptional floods.
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extended drought
Key threats include continuing land clearance in its vicinity, altered hydrology and extended drought.
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extreme drought
Usually no irrigation was required in the rainy season but was applied only when there were extreme drought periods.
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frequent drought
There was and remains the problem of inadequate rain for crops and humans, the rainy season being short and erratic with frequent drought.
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long drought
There is no worse sight than seeing a river drying up during a long drought.
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moderate drought
Some areas of moderate drought were completely surrounded by areas of severe devastation.
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periodic drought
The effects of stochastic events, such as periodic drought, on the in-stream flows of the river, have not been considered in the model.
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playoff drought
This began a six-year playoff drought, the longest such drought in team history.
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prolonged drought
This dierence resulted primarily from the prolonged drought at sowing in the 1994 season.
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seasonal drought
The effects of seasonal drought on background canopy-gap disturbance in the tropics are expected to be substantially compounded by the effects of major disturbances.
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serious drought
But the situation abruptly changes after 1992, when stocking rates are rather high and a serious drought hits the area.
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severe drought
Seedling death was obviously high and may have been enhanced by the severe drought which occurred later in 1997.
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