phcfM
is an R package for modelling anthropogenic deforestation. It
was initially developed to obtain REDD+ baseline scenarios of
deforestation for the programme holistique de conservation des forêts
à Madagascar (from which the package is named after). It includes
two main functions:
demography()
, to model the population growth with time in a
hierarchical Bayesian framework using population census data and
Gaussian linear mixed models.
deforestation()
, to model the deforestation process in a
hierarchical Bayesian framework using land-cover change data and
Binomial logistic regression models with variable time-intervals
between land-cover observations.
The last stable version of the phcfM
R package (phcfM_1.2
) is
officially available for several operating systems (Unix, Windows and
Mac OSX) on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).
The source code and manual for the testing version (phcfM_1.2-1
) is available here:
A GRASS location (phcfM_SM
) and two mapsets with geographical data
layers (PERMANENT
and study_area_4
) are available to illustrate the
use of the phcfM
R package. Associated to the GRASS location, a
directory (./scripts
) includes the data and the R/GRASS scripts used
for the demographic and deforestation models.
The following scheme illustrates the structure of the ./scripts
folder.
./scripts |-- 0_demography_SAs.R |-- 1_deforestation_dataset_SA4.R |-- 2_deforestation_model_SA4.R |-- 3_deforestation_forecast_PS4.R |-- data |-- |-- 0_data_demography_SAs.txt |-- |-- 1_data_deforestation_SA4.txt |-- fragindex |-- |-- recl.txt |-- |-- r.forestfrag |-- outputs |-- |-- demography |-- |-- forecast |-- |-- model
Four scripts are available: 0_demography_SAs.R
is a R script to
estimate the parameters of the demographic model using the function
demography()
of the phcfM
R package,
1_deforestation_dataset_SA4.R
is a R/GRASS script to prepare the
data-set for the deforestation model from the geographic data layers
of the phcfM_SM
GRASS location, 2_deforestation_model_SA4.R
is a R
script to estimate the parameters of the deforestation model using the
function deforestation()
of the phcfM
R package and
3_deforestation_forecast_PS4.R
is a R/GRASS script to forecast
deforestation and carbon dioxide emissions.
The ./scripts/data
folder includes the population census data file
0_data_demography_SAs.txt
used for the demographic model. Running
the 1_deforestation_dataset_SA4.R
script generates the file
1_data_deforestation_SA4.txt
(the data-set used for the
deforestation model) in the ./scripts/data
folder. The
./scripts/fragindex
folder includes the GRASS function
r.forestfrag
to compute the forest fragmentation index. The
./scripts/outputs
folder includes the outputs for the demographic
model, the deforestation model and the deforestation forecast.
Vieilledent G., Grinand C., Vaudry R. 2013. Forecasting deforestation and carbon emissions in tropical developing countries facing demographic expansion: a case study in Madagascar. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.550.
Ghislain Vieilledent Cirad, UPR BSEF Campus de Baillarguet TA C-105/D 34398 Montpellier cedex 5 FRANCE
Skype: ghislain.vieilledent Email: ghislain(dot)vieilledent(at)cirad(dot)fr WWW: http://ghislain.vieilledent.free.fr
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