Desiccation

But we have very little information on how lots of organisms respond to desiccation and aridity.

Contrast this to the traditional wood desiccation process where lumber companies must build and maintain expensive wood drying facilities, spend money on energy to heat the wood, and emit massive amounts CO2.

Although precipitation is not a limiting factor, the ground freezes during the winter months and plant roots are unable to absorb water, so desiccation can be a severe problem in late winter for evergreens.

As a result of their independence from their surroundings, they lost their ability to survive desiccation – a costly trait to retain.

A species' ability to cope with desiccation determines its upper limit, while competition with other species sets its lower limit.

Because the danger of desiccation is greatest during the day and in dry weather, it is not surprising that velvet worms are usually most active at night and during rainy weather.

Due to the continual risk of desiccation, often only a few hours per day are available for finding food.

However, even in these "easy" early days, water was at a premium, and had to be transported to parts of the plant from the wet soil to avoid desiccation.

In order to survive the high salinities, halophiles employ two differing strategies to prevent desiccation through osmotic movement of water out of their cytoplasm.

In such retreats they are in less danger from either predators or desiccation, and often those also are suitable places for laying their eggs.

Meanwhile, Africa experienced a trend of desiccation which resulted in the creation of the Sahara, Namib, and Kalahari deserts.

Previous findings indicate that within the protective environment of the biofilm, the pathogen remains protected from starvation, desiccation and the action of antibiotics.

Some species are capable of laying eggs that remain dormant during times of desiccation or low temperatures; these species, however, are also able to produce regular eggs, which hatch in one to four days, when environmental conditions are more favourable.

The excessive panting of dogs in hot weather was thought to place them at risk of desiccation and disease.

The Kanembu were supposedly forced southwest towards the fertile lands around Lake Chad by political pressure and desiccation in their former range.

The outer pollen wall, which prevents the pollen grain from shrinking and crushing the genetic material during desiccation, is composed of two layers.

The process began with removal of viscera, after which the bodies were set in a seated position on a platform and either left to dry in the sun or smoked over a fire in order to aid in desiccation.

The rocky shores of Heard Island exhibit a clear demarcation between fauna of the lower kelp holdfast zone and the upper shore zone community, probably due to effects of desiccation, predation and freezing in the higher areas.

They are not resistant to desiccation straight after oviposition, but must develop to a suitable degree first.

They developed "hands" and "feet" with five or more digits; the skin became more capable of retaining body fluids and resisting desiccation.