A stand-level drought risk assessment tool for considering climate change in forest management.
Abstract
This extension note highlights the stand-level drought risk assessment tool methods, field validation, some of the current applications, and how the tool could be used in the future. Preliminary field testing results indicate the actual soil moisture regime risk category produced by the stand-level drought risk assessment tool correlated well with indicators of tree stress in the sub-boreal spruce zone of central British Columbia, Canada.