Consider 'desiccation' to imply not just drying, but often harm to ecosystems.

Environmental Impact

'Desiccation' can be gradual or swift, affecting how we talk about climate effects.

Intensity Variation

Desiccation is often a negative event that prompts actions to stop it.

Preventive Measures

In medical contexts, 'desiccation' indicates unhealthy, worrying dryness.

Health Context

Desiccation in medical terms can range from mild to severe with different implications.

Severity Levels

In chemistry, desiccation refers to a controlled process, not just any form of drying.

Chemical Specificity

Use 'desiccation' to sound more technical or scientific when discussing drying substances.

Technical Vocabulary

 to be able to lose all that water and not die? So I undertook what we call a systems biology approach in order to get a comprehensive understanding of desiccation tolerance, in which we look at everything from the molecular to the whole plant, ecophysiological level. For example we look at things like changes in the plant anatomy as they dried out

How we can make crops...

 need to be in the water or in a moist environment often or else we would dehydrate excessively or desiccate that's okay it's another word for dehydration usually desiccation refers