Digital twin linking cultural ecosystem services of recreational potential and biodiversity

The use case will focus on the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland initially as a proof-of-concept study, we aim to consider other areas and different species in future work.

The case-study will focus on how a digital twin prioritising user-defined recreation preferences linked to biodiversity occurrence and locations with sparse biodiversity data could be used by the following users:

• Citizens wishing to recreate in nature
• Citizens wishing to contribute scientific data (Citizen scientists)
• Land managers wishing to manage biodiversity and recreationalists in their area
• Policy makers wishing to balance trade offs in space for development/nature/recreation
• Inter and transdisciplinary researchers seeking to test socio-ecological hypotheses

The poster was first presented at the BioDT Annual Meeting 2023, 13-14 June in Leiden, Netherlands.

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