hydrologically
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- adverb
- /haɪˈdrɒlədʒɪkli/
- Specialized
- The engineers designed the drainage system to ensure that the areas remained hydrologically balanced and sustainable.
- hydrologically connected
Examples
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The study focused on how different ecosystems are hydrologically linked, impacting both plant and animal life.
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Most landscapes and river systems have been hydrologically disturbed by agriculture, livestock grazing, deforestation, and habitat fragmentation through damming and urbanization (MA 2005).
Academic text (2010) -
To grow the lettuce, vast amounts of water must be moved from the Colorado River to California, the most hydrologically altered landmass on the planet.
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If a refuge is hydrologically connected to the residential habitats of the fish, its quality, which is always relative to the quality of the residential habitats, will determine the duration of refuge use.
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A hydrologically open created wetland can develop, through self-design, a diverse assemblage of species even where no propagules existed before.
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Around the globe, streams slosh about, run into each other, branch, loop, and in general carve out new cultural landscapes within a hydrologically active layer that exists above earlier landscapes.
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Serious discussions are underway about the feasibility, costs, and benefits of hydrologically separating the Great Lakes from the Mississippi River by altering the current design and operations of the Chicago Area Waterway System.
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Hundreds of taxa, both aquatic and terrestrial, were continually introduced to these wetland basins, primarily because they were hydrologically open systems, and many of them survived.
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Marsh management projects really do not employ water control structures and levees to hydrologically isolate marshes from adjacent water bodies and to manipulate water flows and levels to achieve some expected benefit.
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In arid regions, understanding how aquifers are hydrologically interconnected is crucial for managing water resources.
Synonyms
About water supply or rainfall
Surface Forms
Morphology
hydrologically = hydrological (transparent) = hydrology + ical + ly
Formed from the adjective 'hydrological' by the regular adverbial suffix '-ly'; the meaning directly corresponds to 'in a hydrological manner'.
Etymology
The word hydrologically comes from hydro 'water' and logy 'study', the same logy you see in biology. So, to say something is hydrologically connected means it is 'about water', especially how water moves or where it goes.