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Report from a workshop held in Göttingen, Germany, 10-11 March 2011
Can agrobiodiversity enhance food security facing climate change? – The insurance function of biodiversity declined through all scales

Motivation
Changing climate expressed as increased variability in temperature and precipitation (e.g. inundations, heat waves, droughts, shifts in rainy season) requires a high adaptive capacity of crop and animal breeds. Biodiversity at different scales is assigned an insurance function as it increases the probability that at least parts of the genepool, species, or ecosystems will match with changing environmental conditions. However, this insurance hypothesis deriving from ecological theory is far from being ... Insurance report (pdf) click here