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Simulating social-ecological systems: the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) consortium

Serge Planes
Linda Amaral Zettler
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Veronique Berteaux-Lecellier
Hervé C. Bossin
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Antoine Collin
Tony Dell
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Mike Harfoot
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James L. Hench
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Marania Hopuare
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Patrick Kirch
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Georgios Kotoulas
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Alex Kosenkov
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Alex Kusenko
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James J. Leichter
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Hunter Lenihan
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Chris Meyer
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Fernanda Valdvinos
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Abstract

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.

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hal-01429002 , version 1 (06-01-2017)

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Neil Davies, Dawn Field, David Gavaghan, Sally J. Holbrook, Serge Planes, et al.. Simulating social-ecological systems: the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) consortium. GigaScience, 2016, 5 (1), ⟨10.1186/s13742-016-0118-5⟩. ⟨hal-01429002⟩
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