Delta ISB: 21st century science for 21st century environmental decision making: the challenges and opportunities of near-term iterative ecological forecasting
What if we could predict changes to ecosystems in the same way we can predict the weather? An emerging field of science is working towards making that a reality. In areas such as fisheries, wildlife, algal blooms, wildfire, and human disease, we often need to know how ecosystems and the services they provide might change in the future and how human activities can affect those trajectories.