Ecological Platform for Assimilating Data (EcoPAD) for Ecological Forecasting

Tremendous scientific endeavors in ecology have been driven by the goal of forecasting future ecological dynamics. This chapter introduces the web-based Ecological Platform for Assimilating Data into model (EcoPAD) to facilitate ecological forecasting. The objectives of this lecture are to understand why we need a platform like EcoPAD, the structure of the platform, and how to use EcoPAD to facilitate ecological forecasting.