全球物种的丧失导致环境变化，并使生态系统和生态系统服务的功能处于危险之中。为了更好地理解生物多样性的作用和保护生物多样性所需的措施，需要对生物多样性的基础知识进行研究。这需要各学科和科学方法的合作和协调。iDiv研究人员进行基础研究，在此基础上，应用和政策部门的决策者为当前的生物多样性危机制定解决方案。

iDiv是DFG的研究中心，拥有400多名员工和成员，主要分布在哈勒、耶拿和莱比锡，来自超过35个国家的研究人员为地球生物多样性的可持续管理奠定了科学基础。

生物多样性不仅是物种多样性，还包括遗传多样性、功能多样性、相互作用和生态系统的多样性。iDiv整合了11个机构的150多名活跃成员的个人研究计划，定义了五个高度相关的主要研究领域：生态功能、环境变化、社会干预、分子研究、生态复杂性以及生物多样性变化。iDiv研究人员在各种实验和观察以及虚拟平台上工作，以产生尖端的综合生物多样性科学，并辅之以一系列科学服务和科学政策活动。

Global species loss leads to environmental changes and puts the functioning of ecosystems and ecosystem services at risk. Research on the basics of biodiversity is needed to better understand the role of biodiversity and the measures needed to protect it. This requires the cooperation and coordination of various disciplines and scientific methods. iDiv researchers conduct basic research on which decision-makers in the application and policy sectors develop solutions to the current biodiversity crisis.

iDiv is DFG's research center with more than 400 employees and members, mainly in Halle, Jena and Leipzig, and researchers from more than 35 countries lay the scientific foundation for the sustainable management of the planet's biodiversity.

Biodiversity is not only species diversity, but also genetic diversity, functional diversity, interaction and ecosystem diversity. iDiv integrates the individual research initiatives of more than 150 active members from 11 institutions and defines five major areas of research that are highly relevant: ecological functioning, environmental change, social intervention, molecular research, ecological complexity, and biodiversity change. iDiv researchers work on a variety of experiments and observations as well as virtual platforms to produce cutting-edge integrated biodiversity science complemented by a range of scientific services and science policy activities.