{"title":"Palmer Drought Indices and Their Application to Plantation Establishment Strategies","authors":"J. Zwolinski","doi":"10.1080/10295925.1997.9631133","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"SYNOPSIS Palmer drought models are introduced as an objective measure of monthly moisture conditions and their application for forestry research is discussed. A case-study showed that Palmer Hydrological Drought Index was preferred to Palmer Drought Severity Index for deciding on establishment strategy to prevent excessive post-planting mortality.","PeriodicalId":228456,"journal":{"name":"The Southern African Forestry Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Southern African Forestry Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10295925.1997.9631133","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
SYNOPSIS Palmer drought models are introduced as an objective measure of monthly moisture conditions and their application for forestry research is discussed. A case-study showed that Palmer Hydrological Drought Index was preferred to Palmer Drought Severity Index for deciding on establishment strategy to prevent excessive post-planting mortality.