Drought can impact local vegetation dynamics in a long term. In order to predict the possible successional pathway of local community under drought, the responses of some drought resistance indices of six successional seral species in the semi-arid Loss Hilly Region of China were illustrated and compared on three levels of soil water deficits along three growing months (7, 8 and 9). The results...

drought indices are commonly used to quantify and assess drought characteristics. the standardized precipitation index (spi), and recently introduced standardized precipitation-evapotranspiration index (spei) are considered as universal meteorological drought indices which allow comparisons of drought conditions across different climate regions. the spi captures anomalies in precipitation, wher...

this study was conducted to determine drought tolerance genotypes with superiority in different stressed environments. to screening quantitative indices of drought tolerance, genotypes of safflower (carthamus tinctorius l.) were tested in a complete randomized block design with three replications under two different water regimes (irrigated and rainfed). significant positive correlation was fou...

The standard suite of indicators currently used in operational drought monitoring reflects anomalous conditions in several major components of the hydrologic budget—representing deficits in precipitation, soil moisture content, runoff, surface and groundwater storage, snowpack, and streamflow. In principle, it is useful to have a diversity of indices because drought can assume many forms (meteo...

in this article, new index, the optimized synthetized drought index (osdi), is suggested for real-time monitoring of this phenomenon in areas with heterogeneous land covers. the precipitation, one of the important factors in drought, measured by ground stations and improved bytrmm satellite data. each of the three normalized moisture indices, including normalized difference vegetation index (nd...