Evolution: Vielfältigkeit ist gut für das Ökosystem

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Biodiversität ist wichtig für ein funktionierendes Ökosystem.

CNRS researchers based at University of Montpellier 2(1), working in collaboration with scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom(2), have recently demonstrated that evolution can lead to greater biological diversity, and particularly to improvements in the functioning of ecosystems. In the current context of the erosion of biodiversity these results, published in Nature, underline the importance of evolution as a structuring force for ecosystems, and open new paths to interpreting the relationship between the diversity of living beings and the functioning of ecosystems.
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In the longer term, these results suggest that this homogenization may reduce the capacity of living beings for diversification in the future. The marked homogenization of ecosystems would prevent the appearance of new species… with the functional consequences that these researchers have just demonstrated. There is nonetheless a message of hope: evolution is capable of re-complexifying a simple system and improving its performance.
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Ja, ruhig weiter Ökosysteme und Arten auslöschen, wird schon gut gehen.
Man kann das übrigens auch auf Kulturen projizieren: Kulturelle Diversität erzeugt gesunde Kultur...