Ecological Diversity Enhances Ecosystem Resilience to Climate Change

A new synthesis paper highlights that ecological diversity, encompassing variations within and across habitats, species, and interactions, functions like a financial portfolio to increase ecosystem resilience. This "portfolio effect" helps ecosystems absorb disturbances and adapt to global change, underscoring the importance of conserving and restoring diversity for maintaining ecosystem services. The paper was published in Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment.