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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">102</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">ARPHA Preprints</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">preprints</abbrev-journal-title>
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        <publisher-name>Pensoft Publishers</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/arphapreprints.e124639</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">124639</article-id>
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          <subject>Forum Paper</subject>
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          <subject>Ecology &amp; Environmental sciences</subject>
        </subj-group>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Prototype Biodiversity Digital Twin: Honey Bees in Agricultural Landscapes</article-title>
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      <contrib-group content-type="authors">
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Groeneveld</surname>
            <given-names>Jürgen</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">juergen.groeneveld@ufz.de</email>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Martinovič</surname>
            <given-names>Tomáš</given-names>
          </name>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0132-1434</uri>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Rossi</surname>
            <given-names>Tuomas</given-names>
          </name>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8713-4559</uri>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Salamon</surname>
            <given-names>Ondrej</given-names>
          </name>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-0051</uri>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Sara-aho</surname>
            <given-names>Kata</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Grimm</surname>
            <given-names>Volker</given-names>
          </name>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3221-9512</uri>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany</addr-line>
        <institution>Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Leipzig</addr-line>
        <country>Germany</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic</addr-line>
        <institution>VSB - Technical University of Ostrava</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Ostrava</addr-line>
        <country>Czech Republic</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A3">
        <label>3</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd, Espoo, Finland</addr-line>
        <institution>CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Espoo</addr-line>
        <country>Finland</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A4">
        <label>4</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">CSC - IT Center for Sciences, Espoo, Finland</addr-line>
        <institution>CSC - IT Center for Sciences</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Espoo</addr-line>
        <country>Finland</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Jürgen Groeneveld (<email xlink:type="simple">juergen.groeneveld@ufz.de</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>05</day>
        <month>04</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>5</volume>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/1AB9F265-CA67-5D4E-A08B-BDEB6D611CBB">1AB9F265-CA67-5D4E-A08B-BDEB6D611CBB</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>03</day>
          <month>04</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>03</day>
          <month>04</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Jürgen Groeneveld, Tomáš Martinovič, Tuomas Rossi, Ondrej Salamon, Kata Sara-aho, Volker Grimm</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Honey bees are vital to human well-being and are under multiple stresses. We need to be able to assess the viability and productivity of honey bee colonies in different landscapes and under different management and climate change scenarios. We have developed a prototype digital twin, HONEYBEE-pDT, based on the BEEHAVE model, which simulates foraging, population dynamics and <italic>Varroa </italic>mite infestation of a single honey bee colony. The main input data are land cover maps and daily weather data. Users can run the pDT for a specific site or for larger areas, up to the whole of Germany. Hive weight data from hundreds of hives will be used for calibration and validation.<o:p/></p>
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