LTER-LIFE
LTER-LIFE is a scientific infrastructure aimed at supporting shared and integrated ecological research – towards the building of digital twins of ecosystems. We do this in three ways:
- by bringing together geographically focused research communities; connecting people that do research on different aspects of the same ecosystem,
- by creating a portal to find (legacy) data, models, and tools relevant for these regional research communities; helping researchers to share and reuse, and
- by setting up a virtual research environment where these data, models and tools can be re-used and connected.
In the virtual research environment, virtual laboratories will support reuse and co-development. By integrating the link to datasources and streams with state of the art modelling in a modular way, these LTER-LIFE virtual labs will allow for the building of digital twins of ecosystems. These digital twins can be used in support of scientific research and monitoring and will allow for scenario analysis.
LTER-LIFE will initially focus on 2 of the most extensive and best-studied ecosystems in the Netherlands representing aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems: the Wadden Sea and the Veluwe. The infrastructure was founded in August 2023 and has obtained a 10-year grant from NWO to develop and implement the infrastructure.
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