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evoland+ HPC Guide

What is evoland-plus HPC?

A unified High Performance Computing (HPC) pipeline for scenario-based modelling of future Land Use and Land Cover Change, the supply of Nature’s Contributions to People (NCPs) and the distribution of species, combining several existing models and tools:

• Land use land cover change (LULCC) model for Switzerland (Black et al. 2023; Black et al. 2024)
• Species distribution modelling (N-SDM) (Adde et al. 2023)
• Indicators of Nature’s contributions to people (NCPs) based on (Külling et al. 2024)

For more details on the background on the evoland-plus HPC pipeline, see the Introduction.

Statement of need

evoland-plus HPC was devised in order to perform simulations of alternative scenarios (Mayer, Rabe, and Grêt-Regamey 2023) that depict the development of the framing conditions for the establishment of a functioning Ecological Infrastructure in Switzerland as specified in the Action Plan for the Swiss Biodiversity Strategy.

Acknowledgements

The development of evoland-plus HPC and it’s parent models was funded under the ValPar.CH project, funded by the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN).

N-SDM was developed within the Ecospatial Ecology Group (Ecospat) at the University of Lausanne

LULCC-CH was developed within the chair of Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS) at ETH Zurich

The models of NCPs were developed within the EnviroSPACE Laboratory at the University of Geneva.

How to cite

When using the evoland-plus HPC pipeline, please cite the following paper:

BibTex

@unpublished{black2025,
    title = {Identifying robust conservation strategies to secure ecosystem service provision under uncertainties},
    author = {Black, Benjamin and Adde, Antoine and {Külling}, Nathan and {Büth}, Carlson and Kurmann, Manuel and Lehmann, Anthony and Altermatt, Florian and Guisan, Antoine and Gret-Regamey, Adrienne},
    year = {2025},
    date = {2025},
    note = {In Review in Global Environmental Change}
}
}

Attribution

Black, B., Adde, A., Külling, N., Büth, C., Kurmann, M., Lehmann, A., Altermatt, F., Guisan, A., & Gret-Regamey, A. (2025). Identifying robust conservation strategies to secure ecosystem service provision under uncertainties. In review in Global Environmental Change.

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Introduction

Structure

Setup and usage

Adde, Antoine, Pierre-Louis Rey, Philipp Brun, Nathan Külling, Fabian Fopp, Florian Altermatt, Olivier Broennimann, et al. 2023. “N-SDM : A High-Performance Computing Pipeline for Nested Species Distribution Modelling.” Ecography 2023 (6): e06540. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06540.

Black, Benjamin, Antoine Adde, Daniel Farinotti, Antoine Guisan, Nathan Külling, Manuel Kurmann, Caroline Martin, et al. 2024. “Broadening the Horizon in Land Use Change Modelling: Normative Scenarios for Nature Positive Futures in Switzerland.” Regional Environmental Change 24 (3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-024-02261-0.

Black, Benjamin, Maarten J. Van Strien, Antoine Adde, and Adrienne Grêt-Regamey. 2023. “Re-Considering the Status Quo: Improving Calibration of Land Use Change Models Through Validation of Transition Potential Predictions.” Environmental Modelling & Software 159 (January): 105574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105574.

Külling, Nathan, Antoine Adde, Audrey Lambiel, Sergio Wicki, Antoine Guisan, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, and Anthony Lehmann. 2024. “Nature’s Contributions to People and Biodiversity Mapping in Switzerland: Spatial Patterns and Environmental Drivers.” Ecological Indicators 163: 112079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112079.

Mayer, Paula, Sven-Erik Rabe, and Adrienne Grêt-Regamey. 2023. “Operationalizing the Nature Futures Framework for Ecological Infrastructure.” Sustainability Science, July. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01380-7.