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Ecosystem Services Modeling Infrastructures: Simile/MIMES (Gund Institute) and FRAMES/3MRA (US EPA) Integrated Modeling for Forecasting
Citation:
JOHNSTON, J. M., G. F. LANIAK, R. R. Lassiter, R. Boumans, D. Ames, AND K. Reckhow. Ecosystem Services Modeling Infrastructures: Simile/MIMES (Gund Institute) and FRAMES/3MRA (US EPA) Integrated Modeling for Forecasting. Presented at Ecosystem Services Conference, Beijing, CHINA, October 13 - 17, 2008.
Impact/Purpose:
The Ecological Research Program (ERP) of the EPA Office of Research and Development has the vision of a comprehensive theory and practice for characterizing, quantifying, and valuing ecosystem services and their relationship to human well-being for environmental decision making.
Description:
The Ecological Research Program (ERP) of the EPA Office of Research and Development has the vision of a comprehensive theory and practice for characterizing, quantifying, and valuing ecosystem services and their relationship to human well-being for environmental decision making. This vision of future environmental decision-making is planned as an innovative, online decision support platform with a full range of data exploration methods, models and decision options, and is intended to be a dynamic connection between managers and policy developers and their ecosystems and bundled services of interest, from local to regional and national scales. Forecasting of alternative future ecosystem states driven by land use change, climate change and multiple stressors, and in response to alternative decisions, is foreseen as leading to better long-term decisions. Two mature modeling frameworks and their associated science being evaluated for the requirements of the ecology program are Simile/MIMES and FRAMES/3MRA.