Mitigating the adverse effects that the ongoing global change has on ecosystem services requires a comprehensive understanding of biodiversity. However, our knowledge of biodiversity is still very partial. For example, most species on Earth are still to be discovered, and thus we have no information about their roles in ecosystems. This project will develop much needed new tools for biodiversity research that enable reliable and fast monitoring of full biodiversity at the global scale. To ensure broad applicability of the methods, we will test them in Finland, several European countries and Madagascar with a diverse set of stakeholders, including national and international biodiversity monitoring schemes and the private sector. Through digital twinning, the project will accelerate the interaction between scientific research and management, offering a new basis for biodiversity monitoring, environmental policy and societal decision making.

2026

2031