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drought severity — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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drought severity

Scope: climate

Papers: 13 | Mentions: 15

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Knowledge graph centered on drought severity with 73 nodes and 155 connections. Top connected: A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments , Spruce, climate change, Populus, elevational gradients.

Definition

Standardized measure of water deficit calculated using the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) over 12-month periods

Related Terms (8)

SPEIwater-year drought severityAIPDSIJune PDSIclimate wetnessaridity indexPDI

Publications (13)

Up high, hot and dry: Individual reproductive output in subalpine bees declines with increasing drought severity

2025Global Change Biologycentral

Controls from above and below: Snow, soil, and steepness drive diverging trends of subsurface water and streamflow dynamics

2025Hydrological Processesmeasured variable

Climate data from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (1975–2022)

2023Ecologymeasured

On the similarity of hillslope hydrologic function: a clustering approach based on groundwater changes

2022Hydrology and Earth System Sciencesmeasured

Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above-and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions

2022Hydrology and Earth System Sciencesmeasured variable

Statistical framework to assess long-term spatio-temporal climate changes: East River mountainous watershed case study

2022Stochastic environmental research and risk assessmentcentral

A deep learning hybrid predictive modeling (HPM) approach for estimating evapotranspiration and ecosystem respiration

2021Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciencecontext

Documents (1)

management plan

Planning for Drought

Related Concepts (10)

groundwater storage dynamics

process8 shared papers

climate change

phenomenon7 shared papers

precipitation

measurement6 shared papers

nitrogen retention

process6 shared papers

carbon cycling

process6 shared papers

NDVI

metric5 shared papers

soil respiration

process5 shared papers

hillslope similarity

theory5 shared papers

aridity

phenomenon4 shared papers

topographic wetness index

metric4 shared papers

Frequently Associated Species

Populus

Salicaceae3 papers

Populus tremuloides

Salicaceae3 papers

A. tridentata

Spruce

Atriplex canescens

not mentioned2 papers

big sagebrush

Phleum pratense

Poaceae2 papers

aspen

Artemisia tridentata

Asteraceae2 papers

Quaking aspen

The effect of cytotype on radial growth rate in quaking aspen (<i> Populus tremuloides </i>) across environmental gradients

Chronic, low-level nitrogen deposition enhances abundances of ant-protected herbivores inhabiting an imperiled foundation species

2021Acta Oecologicameasured

Satellite-derived foresummer drought sensitivity of plant productivity in Rocky Mountain headwater catchments: spatial heterogeneity and geological-geomorphological control

2020Environmental Research Lettersmeasured

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A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

2019Nature Ecology & Evolutiionmeasured

Differences in Evolutionary History and Ploidy Type Shape the Interactions of <i>Populus tremuloides</i> Michx. with Climate

2017measured variable

The effect of the foresummer drought on carbon exchange in subalpine meadows

2015Ecosystemsmeasured