Viewing a version of dataset "Northeast Growing Season SPEI"
Version name: NY_SW spei for indicators 20200930
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- Purpose
While mild, short-term droughts are not an uncommon event in Vermont, with higher temperatures resulting from continued climate change, we may see more severe or longer-duration droughts. Lack of water, particularly during the growing season, can result in short-term changes in our forests, for example, a tree will halt photosynthesis and growth until there is sufficient water. But droughts can also result in more serious consequences to forests, like lack of a viable seed crop or large die-offs of vulnerable species, locations, or age classes. Seedlings are particularly vulnerable to drought due to their shallow root systems. Further, droughts can increase the chance of forest fire -- to which many of our tree species are not adapted. Insect pest outbreaks can also be more destructive when they occur with or following drought.
- Version Name
- NY_SW spei for indicators 20200930
- Version ID
- 6
- Version Type
- Subset
- Created Date
- 2020-09-30 13:17:52
- Creator
- Matthias Sirch
- DOI
- No DOI Assigned
- Download
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- Data License
- Linked - Third party determines data license
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