Fire Ecology Traits for Plants

The Fire Ecology Traits for Plants project is being developed by José R. Ferrer-Paris and David Keith in the Centre for Ecosystem Science, University of New South Wales

Please cite this work as:

Ferrer-Paris, J. R. and Keith, D. A. (2022) Fire Ecology Traits for Plants: A database for fire research and management. Version 1.00. Centre for Ecosystem Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

This work has been supported by:

• University of New South Wales
• NSW Bushfire Research Hub
• NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub
• NSW Department of Planning & Environment

Components of the project

SQL structure of the database

Code for defining the structure of the tables in a PostgreSQL database is available in the fireveg-db repository.

Database content

An export of the SQL structure and iniitial data is available in Figshare:

Ferrer-Paris, José R.; Keith, David A. (2023). Fire Ecology Traits for Plants: Database snapshot (SQL dump). figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.23361002.v1

WebApp

Code for running a Flask webapp available in the fireveg-webapp repository.

Code for managing the database

This repository contains several Jupyter notebooks with code and instruction to perform several tasks in the database.

Visualisation of the notebooks is possible in GitHub, or in the Jupyter Notebook Viewer.

Repository structure

• Folder python/. Most code is written in python.

  • Field-forms/: code for reading field-work data from excel documents
  • Import-austraits/
  • Import-NSWFRD/
  • Input-forms/
  • Literature-review/
  • Report-output/: code for writing output xlsx documents with summaries of fire ecology traits for plants

• Folder R/. Some scripts in R are also available.