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	Processing, preserving and using cassava leaf silage for Mong Cai sows in Central Vietnam
		The average daily gain was lower in the dry season (364 g/day) than in the wet season (620 g/day). Feed conversion rates were 18.2 and 9.3 kg dry matter/kg gain for dry and wet seasons. Liveweight gain was 364 g with 100% roughage and 572 g with 70% roughage and 30% concentrate.
		The buffaloes grew faster in the wet than in the dry seasons and on the diet with the higher ratio of concentrates (Table 3). Feed conversion was related to the rate of weight gain and favoured the wet over the dry season and the higher ratio of concentrates.
		Season affected fattening performance of buffaloes because of the ready availability of grass in the wet season whereas urea-treated rice straw had to be used in the dry season with only a limited (6 kg) supply of grass. Growth rates were 360 and 570 g/day in the wet and dry seasons.
	www.mekarn.org /sarpro/sahn.htm (1012 words)

	Mazatlan.com.mx
		There are many different kinds of tropical habitat that experience dry seasons, with names like tropical dry forest, tropical deciduous forest, thorn forest, spiny desert, savannah, cerrado, and caatinga.
		In a tropical dry forest, the dry season is far longer than the brief period of rainfall.
		Most of the trees and shrubs found in this type of habitat are deciduous, losing their leaves at the onset of the extended dry season, and for this reason they are also known as tropical deciduous forests.
	www.mazatlan.com.mx /ecological/dryforest.htm (663 words)

	Dry season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The dry season is a term commonly used when describing the weather in the tropics.
		The weather in the tropics is dominated by the tropical rain belt, which oscillates from the northern to the southern tropics over the course of the year.
		The tropical rain belt lies in the southern hemisphere roughly from October to March, and during this time the northern tropics experience a dry season in which precipitation is very rare, and days are typically hot and sunny throughout.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dry_season (227 words)

	Fishing Season Peacock Bass
		The two seasons affect all fisheries in the rainforest, but the timing of those seasons vary depending on where the watershed is precisely located.
		Fishing seasons in man-made reservoirs located in these regions may vary because of power-pool drawdowns, but the wet season, dry season pattern will be roughly the same.
		The dry season typically means waters within their banks and peacock bass in habitat that can be fished.
	www.peacockbassassociation.com /html/fishing_season_peacock_bass.html (893 words)

	Wet and Dry Seasons in East Central Florida
		The Wet Season is marked by a daily inland progression of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico sea breezes as a low pressure trough develops across the peninsula due to surface heating.
		Data showed that the median date for the onset of the Wet Season is May 24 in Orlando and May 27 in Daytona Beach, while the median date for the onset of the Dry Season is October 15 at both locations.
		The Wet Season in east central Florida is commonly referred to as the "Rainy Season." Though not as dramatic as the Monsoon circulations elsewhere in the world, the Florida peninsula has many of the same climate characteristics and certainly can be classified as "Monsoon-like" or "Monsoonally influenced" with a distinct wet-dry seasonal rhythm.
	www.srh.noaa.gov /mlb/wetdry/WetDrySeason.html (3044 words)

	Burarra Gathering - Wet & Dry Seasons
		Seasons in the Top End of the Northern Territory are generally known as the wet and the dry.
		During the dry season many waterholes and creeks dry up completely, and grasslands turn brown.
		The yearly weather cycle is more than wet and dry, and includes the 'build up', a period before the wet season that brings high humidity and clouds but no rain.
	burarra.questacon.edu.au /pages/seasons.html (288 words)

	Seasons
		Within the tropics, the angle of incidence of sunlight remains relatively high throughout the year and seasonal patterns of temperature are not evident.
		Wet seasons occur during the months of greatest solar heating when the midday Sun is overhead, generating significant vertical uplift or convection of air that is accompanied by the almost daily formation of large thunderstorms.
		Near the Tropic of Cancer, the ITCZ approaches only during June and July, and climates at these latitudes generally experience only one wet season and a prolonged dry season throughout the remainder of the year.
	www.ace.mmu.ac.uk /eae/Climate/Older/Seasons.html (465 words)

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		Only three compartments have seasonal differences larger than 0.2 — the freshwater prawns (#8), salamanders (#36) and lizards (#44) have differences of 0.21, 0.23 and 0.71, respectively, and all of their trophic levels are higher in the dry season than in the wet.
		One notices immediately that the trophic chains in the two seasons are quite similar, although the inputs and through-flows are generally smaller in the dry season, and the efficiencies are higher in the wet season.
		The ratio of detritivory:herbivory is a approximately 29:1 in the wet season and 45:1 in the wet season.
	www.cbl.umces.edu /~atlss/swgras706.html (3802 words)

	Lecture 9 (13 February 2003) - Tropical Climates and Life Zones
		Dry season days have greater diurnal temperature variation than do wet season days (because there is high heat loss on clear nights).
		Tropical seasons are "wet" and "dry" (instead of a warm summer and cold winter), and are controlled by the latitudinal seasonal movement of the thermal equator and the ITCZ.
		Two main questions concerning tropical climates are: 1) what controls the occurrence of wet and dry seasons, and 2) what influences regional differences in the severity of dry seasons which impose moisture stress on vegetation.
	fig.cox.miami.edu /~djanos/bil336_03/13_feb.html (1087 words)

	Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Three tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregions, the East Deccan dry evergreen forests the Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests, and the Southeastern Indochina dry evergreen forests, are characterized by evergreen trees.
		Dry forests tend to exist north and south of the equatorial rainforest belt, south of the subtropical deserts, generally in two bands, one between 10° and 20°N latitude and the other between 10° and 20°S latitude.
		Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests · Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests · Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests · Temperate coniferous forests · Boreal forests/taiga ·Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands · Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands · Flooded grasslands and savannas · Montane grasslands and shrublands · Tundra ·Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub · Deserts and xeric shrublands · Mangrove
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tropical_and_subtropical_dry_broadleaf_forests (766 words)

	Correlation Analysis of a Ground-Water Level Monitoring Network, Miami-Dade County, Florida
		The average correlation coefficients, however, for the comparison of the water-level data from both wells was only 0.82 during the wet season based on data from 13 seasons (table 5) and 0.86 during the dry season based on data from 18 seasons (table 6).
		The seasonal correlation coefficients determined from water-level data for the 1989 and 1987 wet seasons and the 1986 and 1987 dry seasons are well above the standard deviation of the averaged seasonal correlation.
		were 1.0 and 0.99 during the wet and dry seasons, respectively (tables 5 and 6), these coefficients were determined from water-level data from only one wet season and one dry season.
	pubs.usgs.gov /of/2004/1412/west.html (1363 words)

	Seasons
		The seasons describe the changes in the weather that occur during the course of a year.
		Seasons of climate exist because of the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation.
		For this reason, temperatures in the tropics never fall much below 25°C. Instead, seasons in the tropics are divided into wet and dry periods, with one or two wet and dry seasons occurring in a year.
	www.ace.mmu.ac.uk /eae/Climate/Younger/Seasons.html (264 words)

	Mozambique: Fire Situation (will be published in IFFN No. 25)
		The hot and wet season lasts from November to April and is followed by the cool and relatively dry period between May and October.
		Forest fires are linked to the seasons and sporadic fires start in April each year at the beginning of the dry season, increasing in intensity by late August to October when the vegetation is completely dry, until the first rains in November or December.
		The average size of early fires from April to June is relatively small compared to that of late dry season due to the high water content of the still green vegetation; as grass layers and leaf litter become drier, burning intensifies and spreads.
	www.fire.uni-freiburg.de /iffn/country/mz/mz_1.htm (2546 words)

	Oestrous behaviour and performance in vivo of Saanen goats raised in northeast of Brazil
		Overall, in the Northeast part of Brazil and during the rainy season there is abundance of forage, while during the dry season, the forage is scarce and fibrous and, consequently, of low quality (Lindsay et al 1993).
		Seasonality of reproduction is a common feature in goat breeds of temperate latitudes, as well as animals of the Saanen breed, and photoperiod seems to be the key factor controlling reproduction in these areas (Shelton 1978; Ortavant et al 1985; Delgadillo 1990; Chemineau et al 1992).
		Despite the high percentage of oestrus observed during the late rainy season, this fact cannot be related to a better reproductive activity, because during this season it was observed the largest percentage of abnormal cycles, mainly of short cycles.
	www.cipav.org.co /lrrd/lrrd13/6/lopez136.htm (3251 words)

	Risk Factors Associated with Environmental Mastitis
		The effects of season on bacterial populations in bedding are quite dramatic in regions that experience a wide variation of temperatures within a year.
		However, given the impact of intramammary infections acquired during the dry period on the subsequent lactation, providing cows with a clean and dry environment is not limited to during lactation.
		Dry and lactating cows should consume 1000 IU/d of vitamin E. For cows fed stored forages, vitamin E may need to be supplemented at 1000 IU/day for dry cows and at 500 IU/day for lactating cows, dependent on forage quality and dry matter intake.
	www.nmconline.org /articles/riskfactors.htm (2083 words)

	Rumen dry-matter digestive efficiency of camels, cattle sheep and goats in a semi-arid environment in eastern Africa
		The very dry season (January-March) is the crucial period for a high quality forage supplement intervention for all livestock species; cattle suffer the most due to their high reliance on grass, the least nutritive of the forage components during this period.
		Although there was no rainfall during the first dry season, overcast skies for most of the period meant that it was less dry, in terms of negative effect on vegetation, than the second dry season when cloudless skies resulted in more direct radiation and hence greater evapotranspiration.
		This study showed that the dry season (January-March) is the crucial period for high quality forage supplement intervention for all livestock species, and that cattle suffer the most due to their high reliance on grass, the least nutritive of the forage components during the this period.
	www.fao.org /Wairdocs/ILRI/x5519B/x5519b08.htm (3158 words)

	ENSO anEÑSOorida Dry and Wet Season storminess rainfall and severe weather predictability educational material
		These seasons are sometimes referred to as warm and cool seasons or wet and dry seasons.
		Central Florida is the transition zone and research at NWS Melbourne has led to the concept that the Florida peninsula south of 30 degrees north latitude clearly experiences wet and dry seasons on a consistent basis, while north of 30 degrees experiences more variability in seasonal types from year to year.
		To attempt seasonal forecasts representative of the Florida region it was decided to use the wet and dry convention that applies to the great majority of the state of Florida, and is perhaps a better descriptor of the significance of seasonal impacts.
	www.srh.noaa.gov /mlb/enso/ensoeducational1.htm (419 words)

	Animal Info - Crowned Lemur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the dry season, flowers and young leaves are also taken, together with the occasional invertebrate.
		In 1953, it was known from the savanna and dry bush regions of both northeastern as well as northwestern Madagascar, north of the Bay of Bombetoka on the west coast and the Bay of Antongil on the east coast, north as far as Mt. d'Ambre
		Densities are higher in dry deciduous forest, the crowned lemur's preferred habitat, and lower in humid forests.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/primate/lemucoro.htm (1311 words)

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		We hind-casted densities for wet and dry seasons of a previous wet and dry year to evaluate the potential usefulness of the models as predictors (hydrologic and hydrodynamic model output was unavailable).
		The total predicted abundance in April 1995 (dry season, wet year) was 1.05 times higher than in April 1990 (dry season, dry year), and the total predicted abundance in August 1995 (wet season, wet year) was 1.07 times higher than in August 1990 (wet season, dry year).
		Predicted biomass was highest during the wet season of both years, but higher in the wet season of the dry year than that of the wet year.
	conference.ifas.ufl.edu /jc/papers/flabay/5posterfb/Johnson2.doc (1195 words)

	Nigeria: Climate - Nigeria - OnlineNigeria.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The implication is that there is a prolonged rainy season in the far south, while the far north undergoes long dry periods annually.
		Nigeria, therefore, has two major seasons, the dry season and the wet season, the lengths of which vary from north to south.
		The short dry season in August between these two rainy periods allows for harvesting and planting of fast-growing varieties of grains, such as maize.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /links/adv.asp?blurb=69 (886 words)

	Colophospermum mopane browse plant and sorghum stover as feed resources for ruminant during the dry season in Botswana
		During the dry season and drought years, mopane trees bear pods with seeds and these, together with the dry mopane leaves, are consumed by livestock.
		The average dry matter of the plant material browsed in June, July and August was 93% compared with 84% in May. Liveweights of animals dependent on browse plants during the dry season remained constant.
		The effect of dry mopane leaves and lablab hay as supplementary feeds for beef steers fed sorghum stover during the dry season is being evaluated in an on-going study.
	www.ilri.cgiar.org /InfoServ/Webpub/Fulldocs/X5519b/x5519b0p.htm (3363 words)

	El Niño & Florida’s Dry Season Forecast
		These seasons are sometimes referred to as wet and dry seasons.
		The Wet Season rainfall from May through October is dominated by sea breeze thunderstorms and passing tropical disturbances.
		During the Dry Season, Florida is almost entirely dependent on passing winter cyclones, or fronts, to bring rainfall.
	www.floridadisaster.org /bpr/EMTOOLS/Severe/el_nino.htm (296 words)

	Sugar cane tops as a feed for goats; Effect of harvest season
		For the wet season the trial began 25 July 1995 and ended December 1995; for the dry season the trial began in January 1996 and ended in May 1996.
		In the dry season, the growth was significantly higher for goats fed the sugar cane tops.
		Feed conversion was better in the dry than in the wet season for sugar cane tops but the opposite was the case for the guinea grass.
	www.cipav.org.co /lrrd/lrrd9/1/mui91.htm (1191 words)

	NOVA Online \| Fire Wars \| The World on Fire \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Though the 2000 fires in the U.S. were extraordinary in their scope and duration, they nonetheless fit a seasonal pattern of burning that is largely repeated in the U.S. and around the globe each year.
		Hot, dry weather contributed to a string of fires in Greece and Italy during the summer of 2000.
		In the early part of the wet seasons, when the fuel is still dry enough to ignite and sustain burning, the African climate is highly conducive to lightning fires, which have their own fire season during this time.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/fire/world.html (2090 words)

	Tropical Fish Forums - Dry and Rainy seasons in the Aquarium.
		» Dry and Rainy seasons in the Aquarium.
		To try to re-create as many of the changes as possible that occur during the rainy season's beginning might be one way to spawn species that otherwise are very difficult to spawn.
		When the rainy season starts the food changes to insects that fall down on the surface, mosquito larvae (especially white and perhaps fl) and other water insects, pollen from flowers, seeds, fruits, fresh leaves and eggs and fry from other species that have begun to spawn earlier.
	www.tropicalfishforums.co.uk /index.php?page=dry_and_rainy (2801 words)

	Cropping options for dry seasons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dry seasons are an unfortunate but not uncommon occurence in Australia.
		The first line of defence against a dry season is knowledge of the chances of it occurring.
		Recent work with wider row spacings in sorghum has indicated that wide row configurations may reduce risks in dry seasons.
	www2.dpi.qld.gov.au /fieldcrops/6538.html (338 words)

	Australian weather and the seasons - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
		Even though the four 'official' calendar seasons have the same names as the northern hemisphere seasons, the weather during these seasons is very different to northern hemisphere weather patterns.
		In the north there are tropical regions with high temperatures and high humidity and distinct wet and dry seasons.
		The dry and desert regions of Australia are characterised by intense heat during the day and intense cold at night.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/weather (1764 words)

	ECHO: Networking Global Hunger Solutions
		Tropical monsoon climates are characterized by alternating wet and dry periods with seasonal wind shifts.
		In tropical monsoon regions, farming activities like planting and harvesting are tied closely to the timing of wet and dry seasons.
		Possible vegetables for use in either the wet or dry season include pigeon pea, eggplant, pumpkin, chaya, and okra.
	www.echonet.org /monsoon.htm (248 words)

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