TY - JOUR
T1 - Simulating social-ecological systems
T2 - The Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) consortium
AU - IDEA Consortium
AU - Davies, Neil
AU - Field, Dawn
AU - Gavaghan, David
AU - Holbrook, Sally J.
AU - Planes, Serge
AU - Troyer, Matthias
AU - Bonsall, Michael
AU - Claudet, Joachim
AU - Roderick, George
AU - Schmitt, Russell J.
AU - Zettler, Linda Amaral
AU - Berteaux, Véronique
AU - Bossin, Hervé C.
AU - Cabasse, Charlotte
AU - Collin, Antoine
AU - Deck, John
AU - Dell, Tony
AU - Dunne, Jennifer
AU - Gates, Ruth
AU - Harfoot, Mike
AU - Hench, James L.
AU - Hopuare, Marania
AU - Kirch, Patrick
AU - Kotoulas, Georgios
AU - Kosenkov, Alex
AU - Kusenko, Alex
AU - Leichter, James J.
AU - Lenihan, Hunter
AU - Magoulas, Antonios
AU - Martinez, Neo
AU - Meyer, Chris
AU - Stoll, Benoit
AU - Swalla, Billie
AU - Tartakovsky, Daniel M.
AU - Murphy, Hinano Teavai
AU - Turyshev, Slava
AU - Valdvinos, Fernanda
AU - Williams, Rich
AU - Wood, Spencer
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Davies et al.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Biocode
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Climate change scenarios
KW - Computational ecology
KW - Earth observations
KW - Ecosystem dynamics
KW - Genomics
KW - Predictive modeling
KW - Social-ecological system
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84991529168&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/s13742-016-0118-5
DO - 10.1186/s13742-016-0118-5
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 26998258
AN - SCOPUS:84991529168
SN - 2047-217X
VL - 5
JO - GigaScience
JF - GigaScience
IS - 1
M1 - 14
ER -