title: Simulating social-ecological systems: the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) consortium.
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.
authors.affiliation: Gump South Pacific Research Station, University of California Berkeley, Moorea, BP 244 98728 French Polynesia ; Biodiversity Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Tinbergen Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS UK ; Berkeley Institute for Data Science,190 Doe Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.
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authors.identifier: 0000-0001-8085-5014
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authors.lastname: Davies
authors.affiliation: Biodiversity Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Tinbergen Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS UK.
authors.forename: Dawn
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authors.lastname: Field
authors.affiliation: Computational Biology Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Wolfson Building, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: David
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authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology and the Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA.
authors.forename: Sally J
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authors.lastname: Holbrook
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Excellence CORAIL, USR 3278 CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, Centre de Recherche Insulaire et Observatoire de l'Environnement (CRIOBE), Papetoai, Moorea BP 1013 - 98 729 French Polynesia.
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authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics and Platform for Advanced Scientific Computation, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8093 Switzerland.
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authors.affiliation: Biodiversity Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Tinbergen Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS UK.
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authors.lastname: Bonsall
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Excellence CORAIL, USR 3278 CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, Centre de Recherche Insulaire et Observatoire de l'Environnement (CRIOBE), Papetoai, Moorea BP 1013 - 98 729 French Polynesia.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, 130 Mulford Hall #3114, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.
authors.forename: George
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authors.lastname: Roderick
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology and the Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA.
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authors.lastname: Schmitt
authors.affiliation: The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA.
authors.forename: Linda Amaral
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authors.lastname: Zettler
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Excellence CORAIL, USR 3278 CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, Centre de Recherche Insulaire et Observatoire de l'Environnement (CRIOBE), Papetoai, Moorea BP 1013 - 98 729 French Polynesia.
authors.forename: Véronique
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authors.lastname: Berteaux
authors.affiliation: Unit of Medical Entomology, Institut Louis Malardé, Tahiti, BP 30, 98713 French Polynesia.
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authors.affiliation: Berkeley Institute for Data Science,190 Doe Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.
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authors.affiliation: Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501 USA.
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authors.affiliation: Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, PO Box 1346, Kaneohe, HI 96744 USA.
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authors.affiliation: United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DL UK.
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authors.affiliation: Marine Laboratory, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, 135 Marine Lab Road, Beaufort, NC 28516 USA.
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authors.affiliation: Laboratoire GePaSud, Université de la Polynésie Française, Tahiti, BP6570, 98702 Faa'a French Polynesia.
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authors.affiliation: Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture Hellenic Centre for Marine Research Gournes Pediados, PO Box 2214, Heraklion, Crete GR 710 03 Greece.
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authors.lastname: Kotoulas
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics and Platform for Advanced Scientific Computation, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8093 Switzerland.
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authors.lastname: Kosenkov
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, 475 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA.
authors.forename: Alex
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authors.lastname: Kusenko
authors.affiliation: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA.
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authors.lastname: Leichter
authors.affiliation: Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, 3428 Bren Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA.
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authors.affiliation: Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture Hellenic Centre for Marine Research Gournes Pediados, PO Box 2214, Heraklion, Crete GR 710 03 Greece.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA ; Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab, Berkeley, CA 94703 USA.
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authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire GePaSud, Université de la Polynésie Française, Tahiti, BP6570, 98702 Faa'a French Polynesia.
authors.forename: Benoit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Stoll
authors.affiliation: Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, 620 University Road, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 USA.
authors.forename: Billie
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authors.lastname: Swalla
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0411, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA.
authors.forename: Daniel M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Tartakovsky
authors.affiliation: Atitia Center, Gump Station, University of California Berkeley, Moorea, BP 244 98728 French Polynesia.
authors.forename: Hinano Teavai
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.affiliation: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA ; Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA.
authors.forename: Slava
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Turyshev
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA.
authors.forename: Fernanda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Valdvinos
authors.affiliation: Vibrant Data Inc., 943 Clay Street, San Francisco, Calfornia 94108 USA.
authors.forename: Rich
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.affiliation: School for Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Box 352100, Seattle, Washington 98195 USA.
authors.forename: Spencer
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mesh_terms: D002980:Climate; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D017753:Ecosystem; D005544:Forecasting; D006802:Human Activities; D006801:Humans; D062312:Islands; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011114:Polynesia
keywords: Biocode; Biodiversity; Climate change scenarios; Computational ecology; Earth observations; Ecosystem dynamics; Genomics; Predictive modeling; Social-ecological system