Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data-model integration.

ABSTRACT: In an era of rapid global change, our ability to understand and predict Earth's natural systems is lagging behind our ability to monitor and measure changes in the biosphere. Bottlenecks to informing models with observations have reduced our capacity to fully exploit the growing volume and variety of available data. Here, we take a critical look at the information infrastructure that connects ecosystem modeling and measurement efforts, and propose a roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure development that can reduce the divisions between empirical research and modeling and accelerate the pace of discovery. A new era of data-model integration requires investment in accessible, scalable, and transparent tools that integrate the expertise of the whole community, including both modelers and e

SUBMITTER: Fer I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7756391 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature