{"id":668,"date":"2014-08-28T19:39:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T23:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=668"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:15:53","slug":"weak-relationship-between-drought-and-pine-productivity-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/08\/weak-relationship-between-drought-and-pine-productivity-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"Weak relationship between drought and pine productivity seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blog from the State Climate Office of North Carolina posted a new story today about some summer research done on the relationship between total net primary productivity (TNPP) of pines and drought indices. \u00a0The research explored statistical correlations between various drought indices like the Palmer Drought Severity Index and the Standardized Precipitation Index and the productivity of pines using data from PINEMAP scientists. \u00a0PINEMAP is a USDA-funded research project focusing on pine forestry in the Southeast. \u00a0Only weak correlations between drought indices and TNPP were found, but it was not clear if this was due to the coarse nature of the data or just lack of sufficient data n from climate divisions. \u00a0To read the blog posting, \u00a0click <a title=\"PINEMAP research on drought and pines\" href=\"https:\/\/nc-climate.ncsu.edu\/climateblog?id=92&amp;h=5666e5c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. \u00a0To learn more about PINEMAP, go to<a title=\"PINEMAP\" href=\"https:\/\/pinemap.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0https:\/\/pinemap.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blog from the State Climate Office of North Carolina posted a new story today about some summer research done on the relationship between total net primary productivity (TNPP) of pines and drought indices. \u00a0The research explored statistical correlations between various drought indices like the Palmer Drought Severity Index and the Standardized Precipitation Index and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22822,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/22822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}