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Droughts

Known as: Drought 
Prolonged dry periods in natural climate cycle. They are slow-onset phenomena caused by rainfall deficit combined with other predisposing factors.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
How is drought changing as the climate changes? Several recent papers in the scientific literature have focused on this question… 
Review
2011
Review
2011
Scarcity of water is a severe environmental constraint to plant productivity. Drought-induced loss in crop yield probably exceeds… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Abstract The authors propose a new climatic drought index: the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI). The… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
Severe droughts have been associated with regional-scale forest mortality worldwide. Climate change is expected to exacerbate… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Plants respond to survive under water-deficit conditions via a series of physiological, cellular, and molecular processes… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Future climate warming is expected to enhance plant growth in temperate ecosystems and to increase carbon sequestration. But… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Salt and drought stress signal transduction consists of ionic and osmotic homeostasis signaling pathways, detoxification (i.e… 
Review
1993
Review
1993
1.0 INTRODUCTION Five practical issues become important in any analysis of drought. These include: 1) time scale, 2) probability… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
SummaryProline, which increases proportionately faster than other amino acids in plants under water stress, has been suggested as…