Fire Research and Modelling Environment: an R package to model:
- Fire behaviour from vegetation structure and composition
- Heat fluxes and first-order effects on flora, fauna and soils
- Flammability dynamics
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
- Install a minimum of R 3.4.1 from https://cran.rstudio.com/
- Install rtools from https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/rtools40.html
- Set the path for rtools (Overview of rtools intallation and issues here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njZBf34Akgo&ab_channel=TheCoatlessProfessor)
- Install a minimum of Java 8 from https://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
- Install devtools: install.packages("devtools")
- Run devtools::install_github("pzylstra/frame_r", build_vignettes = TRUE) to install FRaME
INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS
- Field survey methodology: https://youtu.be/sLn2jWSgUzk
- Measuring plant traits: https://youtu.be/9JP6-cGCAds
- Processing field data for modelling: https://youtu.be/n4jul3i34GI
- Modelling fire behaviour: https://youtu.be/Q8JJarbEkb4
- Modelling first-order effects on flora, fauna, and soils: https://youtu.be/i7oJV9oH-M0
FIRST-ORDER FIRE EFFECTS - FAUNA
- Zylstra PJ (2023) Quantifying the direct fire threat to a critically endangered arboreal marsupial using biophysical, mechanistic modelling. Austral Ecology 48, 266–288. doi:10.1111/aec.13264.
FIRST-ORDER FIRE EFFECTS - PLANTS AND SOILS
- Zylstra, P. J. (2021) Linking fire behaviour and its ecological effects to plant traits, using FRaME in R. Methods Ecol. Evol. 12. [online]. Available from: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13615
USING FIELD DATA TO MODEL FLAMMABILITY DYNAMICS
- Zylstra PJ, Wardell-Johnson GW, Falster DS, Howe M, McQuoid N, Neville S (2023) Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire in a south-western Australian forested ecosystem. Functional Ecology 37, 1350–1365. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14305.
FIRE BEHAVIOUR MODELLING AND VALIDATION
- Zylstra P. J., Bradstock R. A., Bedward M. et al. (2016) Biophysical mechanistic modelling quantifies the effects of plant traits on fire severity: species, not surface fuel loads determine flame dimensions in eucalypt forests. PLoS One 11 , e0160715. [online]. Available from: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0160715.
MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND FURTHER DETAILS OF SUB-MODELS AND ASSUMPTIONS
- Zylstra P. J. (2011) Forest flammability: modelling and managing a complex system. University of NSW, Australian Defence Force Academy. [online]. Available from: http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/51656.