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title: 'pdi: Phenotypic Index Measures for Oak Decline Severity'
version: 0.4.3
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.pdi
abstract: Oak declines are complex disease syndromes and consist of many visual indicators
  that include aspects of tree size, crown condition and trunk condition. This can
  cause difficulty in the manual classification of symptomatic and non-symptomatic
  trees from what is in reality a broad spectrum of oak tree health condition. Two
  phenotypic oak decline indexes have been developed to quantitatively describe and
  differentiate oak decline syndromes in Quercus robur. This package provides a toolkit
  to generate these decline indexes from phenotypic descriptors using the machine
  learning algorithm random forest. The methodology for generating these indexes is
  outlined in Finch et al. (2021) <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.118948>.
authors:
- family-names: Finch
  given-names: Jasen
  email: jsnfnch4@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6070-7476
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/jasenfinch/pdi
commit: 7d20ab5983999143bf37ec5b54eea4059bfbb08b
url: https://jasenfinch.github.io/pdi/
date-released: '2026-07-02'
contact:
- family-names: Finch
  given-names: Jasen
  email: jsnfnch4@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6070-7476