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Biodiversity is essential for the processes that support all life on Earth. It provides critical resources such as food and energy, and supports ecosystem health. However, climate change, deforestation, and pollution are destroying habitats, altering ecosystems, and eliminating—or introducing—species that are fundamental for the planet's biosphere.

To tackle the challenges caused by environmental change and human activities on biodiversity, a consortium of 22 partners led by CSC—IT Center for Science, home of the EuroHPC LUMI supercomputer, is developing Biodiversity Digital Twins (BioDT) as a result of the European Commission's initiative.

The BioDT project aims to revolutionize our understanding of biodiversity dynamics by integrating advanced modeling, simulation, and prediction capabilities. By combining and improving digitally available data and models, BioDT offers approaches for sustainable biodiversity management and ecosystem conservation. BioDT's combines expertise in biodiversity, ecological modeling, FAIR data, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence.

BioDT aims to enhance the accuracy and predictive performance of biodiversity models through iterative development and validation against independent data. This approach can be critical for developing decision support tools and policy development.

By continuously updating data, BioDT will provide real-time predictions of biodiversity patterns and processes through interactive maps and summaries. The consortium leverages existing technologies and data from major research infrastructures (GBIF, eLTER, DiSSCo, and LifeWatch ERIC) to achieve this goal.

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