Simulating social-ecological systems: the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) consortium
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- 作者：Neil Davies ; Dawn Field ; David Gavaghan ; Sally J. Holbrook ; Serge Planes…
- 关键词：Computational ecology ; Biodiversity ; Genomics ; Biocode ; Earth observations ; Social ; ecological system ; Ecosystem dynamics ; Climate change scenarios ; Predictive modeling
- 刊名：GigaScience
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：December 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：5
- 期：1
- 全文大小：584 KB
- 刊物主题：Bioinformatics; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences; Proteomics; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：2047-217X
文摘
Systems biology promises to revolutionize medicine, yet human wellbeing is also inherently linked to healthy societies and environments (sustainability). The IDEA Consortium is a systems ecology open science initiative to conduct the basic scientific research needed to build use-oriented simulations (avatars) of entire social-ecological systems. Islands are the most scientifically tractable places for these studies and we begin with one of the best known: Moorea, French Polynesia. The Moorea IDEA will be a sustainability simulator modeling links and feedbacks between climate, environment, biodiversity, and human activities across a coupled marine–terrestrial landscape. As a model system, the resulting knowledge and tools will improve our ability to predict human and natural change on Moorea and elsewhere at scales relevant to management/conservation actions.