drought conditions

collocation in English

meaningsofdroughtandcondition

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drought
noun[C or U]
uk
/draʊt/
us
/draʊt/
a long period when there is little or ...
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condition
noun
uk
/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/
us
/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/
the particular state that something or someone ...
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(Definition ofdroughtandconditionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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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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Amid the intermittent drought conditions of the late 1890s, people often focused their rumors particularly on the contamination of local water supplies.
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The system has become less robust to local drought conditions.
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Both fertilization and drought conditions before or after flowering can lead to large increases in the concentration of glucosinolates in rapeseed seed78.
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These were evaluated under normal irrigation and managed drought conditions.
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Much to our surprise, however, the phenomenon was significant based on a lagged comparison of drought conditions four years later.
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Plants were apparently able to enhance reproductive activity even under drought conditions.
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It is, therefore, still possible that small-seededness is advantageous in germination under temporary drought conditions.
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Thus, in our case, the effects of the drought are primarily ascribed to drought conditions (and not to haze).
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Hybrids were grown under managed drought conditions and the tassel from five plants of each plot was removed before male flowering.
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The early selection of grapevine rootstocks for resistance to drought conditions.
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Another consequence of drought conditions was more striking than phenological changes: extensive fires were observed in both study areas.
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First, increased forest cover will not necessarily increase baseflow (mitigate drought conditions) for all households in a watershed or in all watersheds.
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This property enhances the role of potassium in osmoregulation on which millet tolerance to drought conditions depends.
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As we expected, the phenomenon ceased to be significant when volcanic activity was compared with drought conditions three years later.
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All grain yields were lower in 2002 than in 2001, presumably due to drought conditions in 2002.
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