This repository is the home for the development of the Virtual Ecosystem. The Virtual Ecosystem is a project to develop a simulation of all of the major processes involved in a real ecosystem including the:
- growth and demographic processes of the primary producers within the forest,
- microclimatic processes within and around the ecosystem,
- hydrological processes within the canopy, soil and drainage networks,
- biotic and abiotic processes within the soil, and the
- growth and demography of heterotrophs.
This project is funded by a 2021 Distinguished Scientist award from the NOMIS Foundation to Professor Robert Ewers:
The research is based at Imperial College London:
The Virtual Ecosystem is being developed by a international team of researchers lead by Professor Robert Ewers (Imperial College London). For more details, please see the team page on our website.
The research team are supported by the Imperial College London Research Software Engineering team.
See our ReadTheDocs page for full documentation of the Virtual Ecosystem model.