Ecological Forecasting Issues

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Ecological Forecasting Issues

• Biology biology biology!!!
• State of the Art emerging field users?
• Data
• Integration georeferences
• Access
• Informatics standards, data mining, etc.
• Models integration across scales and
  disciplines
• Ecosystems services and benefits to people
• Adaptive management (learn as we go)
• Monitoring

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Ecological Forecasting Needs

• Short and long-term demonstrations
• Understanding processes and mechanisms (RD)
• Socio-economic drivers of change
• Indicators measured over time (monitoring)
  biology nonlinearity feedbacks
• New statistical tools and models

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Near-term Opportunities

• Focus on
• Invasive species
• Disease
• BioDiversity hotspots
• Cross-cutting societal theme input and output
• Take advantage of existing data
• Citizen science