Multiscale Integration for Spatio-Temporal Ecoclimatic Ecoregioning Delineation

Within the environmental and geoscience modelling community, "Integrated Modelling" can take different meanings about what is integrated within the model. The word usually refers to the need of encompassing various important aspects influencing the outcomes of a model, via integration of other data and models seemingly not of primary interest. Most often the vector of influence is the support of the model: the spatio-temporal paradigm. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that not only interaction of domains, such as ecological, geophysical, economical are important in integrated modelling, but also scales of phenomena and interactions of them.