Winterkill

Also, I don't know if it has affected the lakes in Manitoba, but the harsch winter severly rose the number of fish decimated due to winterkill in ND, and it could be a factor where you are headed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Still, heavy winterkill in some regions—estimated at 16% in the key Volga region—and delays to spring plantings mean many observers remain cautious about Russia's output. ❋ Caroline Henshaw (2011)

As well, the ponds may be less hospitable to predatory fish because the dams are often located on small streams where winterkill conditions are common, the study suggests. posted by Chad Arment @ 12: 55 AM ❋ Unknown (2007)

In polar semi-deserts, nutrient addition generally had a negative effect on vascular plants, due to enhanced winterkill, but stimulated the growth of mosses [28], an effect opposite to that in low-arctic tundra. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lower water levels, which reduce under-ice water volumes and increase the likelihood of winterkill, could possibly counteract this effect. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Private agricultural-weather firm Cropcast said some winterkill damage occurred last weekend in western Nebraska and the contingent areas in Kansas and Colorado "another bout of cold air appears likely during the next three mornings in many of the same areas." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Amid the forecasts for cold weather, some market observers expressed concern that areas without snow cover could suffer from winterkill. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Since most fish would not overwinter in lakes without oxygen, the variable period of autumn mixing prior to ice cover may be a deciding factor in the winterkill. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The sun burned like a flare on a marshy horizon that was gray with winterkill. ❋ James Lee Burke (2002)

Three hundred yards behind the house was a woods bordered with trees that were gray with dead leaves and the scales of air vines, as though the treeline had been matted with premature winterkill. ❋ James Lee Burke (2002)

Climbing the eastern walls of the Easthorns wasn't quite as draining " not quite " as surviving the winterkill storm. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1991)

Paths were to be raked and each spring the winterkill had to be broken into usable lengths, so that by the end of two years she had created not a woods but park in which flowers were free to grow where before only pine needles had accumulated. ❋ Michener, James (1982)

The English walnuts we planted at that time were not of a hardy type and were prone to winterkill. ❋ Unknown (N/A)