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EcoCommons Australia virtual laboratories with cloud computing: Meeting diverse user needs for ecological modeling and decision-making
E Bayraktarov, S Low-Choy, AR Singh, LJ Beaumont, KJ Williams, JB Baumgartner, SW Laffan, D Vasco, R Cosgrove, J Wraith, JF Antunes, B Mackey
Environmental Modelling and Software | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2025
Abstract
Biodiversity decline and climate change are among the most important environmental issues society faces. Information to address these issues has benefited from increasing big data, advances in cloud computing, and subsequent new tools for analytics. Accessing such tools is streamlined by virtual laboratories for ecological analysis, like the ‘Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory’ (BCCVL) and ‘ecocloud’. These platforms help reduce time and effort spent on developing programming skills, data acquisition and curation, plus model building. Recently this functionality was extended, producing EcoCommons Australia—a web-based ecological modeling platform for environmental problem-sol..
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Funding Acknowledgements
EcoCommons is a partnership of nine organizations including NCRIS-funded Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (CEBRA) at the University of Melbourne, CSIRO Environment Business Unit, Griffith University, Macquarie University, Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF), Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), and the University of New South Wales (UNSW). It also benefited from investment from the Queensland Government's Research Infrastructure Co-investment Fund (RICF).