BBIB includes a highly diverse research infrastructure like a unique experimental platform (ScapeLabs), joint research facilities (BeGenDiv and CeSIE), the collections of the involved museums and a citicen science component (Portal Beee).
The Earth will retain its most striking feature, its biodiversity, only if humans have the prescience to do so. This will occur, it seems, only if we realize the extent to which we use biodiversity.
— David Tilman