Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 44 droughts 44 habitat fragmentation 43 species extinctions 40 hotter summers 40 frequent droughts 40 insect populations 39 extinctions 39 terrestrial ecosystems 39 Droughts 38 aridity 38 prolonged drought 38 mass extinctions 38 glacial melt 38 Diffenbaugh 38 floods droughts 38 river deltas 37 evapotranspiration 37 anthropogenic climate 37 Quantifying 37 El Ninos 37 atmospheric circulation 37 overexploitation 36 overhunting 36 megafauna 36 climatological 36 arid regions 36 biodiversity 35 Volcanic eruptions 35 Research Institute IFPRI 35 Global warming 35 temperate zones 35 shrinking glaciers 35 overwhelm 35 atmospheric carbon dioxide 35 monocultures 35 droughts floods 35 mountain glaciers 35 crop yields 35 nutrient runoff 34 famines 34 beget 34 nitrogen fixation 34 Parched 34 large 34 melting permafrost 33 glacier melt 33 Severe drought 33 hydrological cycle 33 underlie 33 drylands 33 melting glaciers 33 magnify 33 El Nino 33 ecologies 33 drought parched 33 ecological degradation 33 4 chars 33 climatic 33 greenhouse warming 33 El Niño 33 dry spells 33 mid latitudes 33 overgrazing 32 Multiplying 32 mild winters 32 ENSO 32 quantifying 32 huger 32 salinity 32 Drought 32 forest ecosystems 32 drought 32 subtropical regions 32 fluctuate wildly 32 milder winters 32 streamflow 32 streamflows 32 Niladri Sekhar Nath 32 warmer winters 32 scale 32 harvests 32 grows exponentially 31 heatwaves 31 Dwindling 31 saturated soils 31 consequent 31 monsoon rainfall 31 unevenly distributed 31 temperate regions 31 monsoons 31 soil erosion 31 irrigated crops 31 Decreasing 31 desertification 31 Climatic 31 climate change 31 storminess 31 unmeasurable 31 river basins 30 understate 30 volcanism