This area provides knowledge and understanding of biodiversity within a socio-economic, political and cultural context, for their efficient management and future preservation.
This area provides essential understanding of the patterns of biological diversity and the processes that shaped them at multiple hierarchical levels, from genes to ecosystems, as well as the development mechanisms responsible for evolutionary change
This area provides insights into the processes (fluxes of energy and matter), the organisms and their interactions over space and time that sustain Earth’s ecosystems.
This are focuses on the enormous range of benefits that biodiversity provides to our health and well-being. The identification and understanding of the links between biodiversity, health and environment is strategic to human living.