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Prototype Biodiversity Digital Twin: honey bees in agricultural landscapes
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- 1. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
- 2. IT4Innovations, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava - Poruba, Czech Republic
- 3. CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd., Espoo, Finland
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Honey bees are vital to human well-being and are under multiple stresses. We need to be able to assess the viability and productivity of honey bee colonies in different landscapes and under different management and climate-change scenarios. We have developed a prototype digital twin, HONEYBEE-pDT, based on the BEEHAVE model, which simulates foraging, population dynamics and Varroa mite infestation of a single honey bee colony. The main input data are land-cover maps and daily weather data. We have developed the pDT for simulating large areas and have tested it for the whole of Germany. We have also developed a web-based GUI that users can use to run the pDT for specific sites. Hive weight data from hundreds of hives will be used for calibration and validation.
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