Biophysical Mechanistic Modelling Quantifies the Effects of Plant Traits on Fire Severity: Species, Not Surface Fuel Loads, Determine Flame Dimensions in Eucalypt Forests

• Philip Zylstra ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Philip Zylstra, Ross A. Bradstock

  * E-mail: pzylstra@uow.edu.au

  Affiliation Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires, Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

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• Ross A. Bradstock ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Philip Zylstra, Ross A. Bradstock

  Affiliation Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires, Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

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• Michael Bedward ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires, Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

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• Trent D. Penman ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Creswick, VIC, Australia

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• Michael D. Doherty ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia

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• Rodney O. Weber,

  Affiliation Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, University of NSW ADFA, Canberra, ACT, Australia

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• A. Malcolm Gill,

  Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia

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• Geoffrey J. Cary

  Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia

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