Ecopro: Ecological Projection Digital Twin

EcoPro is a digital twin to perform an ecological projection which is to predict changes in ecosystems in response to environmental drivers. EcoPro provides a platform to access Earth Systems Model (ESM) outputs and Earth Systems observation datasets, to develop an ecological model that connects ecosystem predictors with environmental drivers, to downscale the ESM model outputs to the resolution relevant to the ecosystem, to apply the ecological model to the downscaled ESM model outputs, to visualize the ecological projection results to the high resolution to inform application users and decision makers, and to assess the performance of new observing systems for ecological projection. We present the design and implementation of EcoPro and the scientific use cases we studied with EcoPro.