Examples of arid

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Managed ir rigated subsistence farming and shade provided by olive and date-palm trees render the environment less arid at the ground level.
There is a growing realization that poor stand establishment is a major constraint on crop production in semi-arid areas.
Applying supplemental pollen is an alternative solution, which could immediately improve fruit set and increase yields in hot, arid olive-producing areas.
I think such a discussion would be rather arid, and would produce only a limited number of adjustments in the final ranking.
The two populations are separated by a mountain range and a fairly arid region to the west of the range.
The sinking air is very dry, having lost its water vapor on the way up, and the area under the descending air is generally arid.
In the semi-arid zone, communally grazed, locally bred cattle and goats are common.
In other words, they recognised that the legal forum provided the most arid of sites for children looking for support and protection.
Thus, the ma arid were considered an impor tant service.
The late nineteenth-century controversies deserve more attention, although not from the old, arid perspective of international law.
Ultimately the attack was arid because there was no hope of resolution.
Potential gains from collaboration are greatest in arid regions, but may be difficult to achieve.
The birds inhabit tropical forests, savannah, and arid semi-desert conditions.
In the arid part of the year the parties are smaller, they travel faster, and they congregate primarily at patches where food is locally abundant.
Clearly, this is not an arid, academic discourse.
At the same time, this kind of reflection does become arid if it is not put to work in the investigation of the past.
When the two cases are compared, the relative difficulty of developing collaborative infrastructure projects in arid regions stands out.
In contrast to the arid case, the higher flood damage leads to an increase in storage.
In-terms of vegetation, 80 per cent of the district can be classified as low savanna and arid/semi-arid (ranching zones).
A possible explanation is that it is only in the more arid zones that individuals own large tracts of land.
Although the focus of this proposition is the developing world tropics, problems with agricultural development in semi-arid regions are not confined to the developing world.
The semi-arid climate in the study area has low, highly variable rainfall, distributed in two rainy seasons.
Additionally, 11 similar semi-arid grassland sites in the same study area were selected for an investigation of oviposition height and vegetation structure at different sites.
In addition to these natural forests, vast areas of woodlands occur in the semi-arid to sub-humid parts of the country.
However, aggregate income is a different matter, and it is the arid and mountain regions and unirrigated areas that are the poorest.
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