The NBFC Digital Platform: A National Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Governance in Italy

The NBFC Digital Platform represents the core digital infrastructure of the National Biodiversity Future Center, designed to enable data-driven governance of biodiversity and ecosystem services in Italy. It integrates heterogeneous biodiversity monitoring data, ranging from in situ ecological networks and Earth observation products to genomic, functional, and experimental datasets.
Through advanced modelling frameworks, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities, the Platform provides a modular environment for simulating ecosystem dynamics, forecasting the impacts of climate and land-use change, and supporting restoration and conservation strategies.
Its architecture connects national observatories, research infrastructures, and Living Labs, offering interactive tools for data visualisation, model coupling, and decision support. By bridging science, technology and policy, the NBFC Platform aims to establish a new paradigm of digital governance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, fostering transparent access to knowledge, reproducible research and informed decision-making across multiple spatial and temporal scales.