{"id":10394,"date":"2022-12-21T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T14:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.forschungregion.de\/life-is-diversity\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:38:06","slug":"life-is-diversity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.forschungregion.de\/en\/the-forschungregion\/sciecons\/life-is-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Biodiversity is the foundation of life on Earth and an irreplaceable resource for humankind. It holds immense economic, ecological, and cultural value – and we must do everything we can to protect and preserve it. <\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Biodiversity and ecosystems: The richer and more complex an ecosystem is, the more resilient it becomes to change \u2014 whether caused by climate shifts or human activity. Biodiversity helps protect habitats by enabling plants and animals to adapt to new environmental conditions. In fact, many of our ecosystems only exist because of human cultivation: meadows, pastures, vineyards, orchards, fields, hedgerows, parks, gardens, and forests are also valuable ecosystems with both economic and cultural importance. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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For farmers, fruit growers, and gardeners, it is highly beneficial to promote biodiversity in the agricultural systems they manage. A diverse environment attracts pollinators that boost yields, as well as natural allies such as birds, ladybirds, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps. These beneficial organisms help control pests like aphids or codling moths. Scientists call this functional biodiversity and refer to the benefits it provides as ecosystem services. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Julius K\u00fchn Institute (JKI) in Braunschweig researches biodiversity<\/a> on agricultural land and in urban areas. It develops recommendations<\/a> on how to increase functional biodiversity<\/a> in various cultivation systems, for example, by planting hedges or flower strips, implementing diverse crop rotations, strip cropping<\/a> or mixed cropping, or by creating nesting sites or refuges for beneficial organisms. <\/p>

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