The earth is home to many forms of life. Ecosystems are constituted not only by birds that feast our eyes in our gardens, large mammals on the savanna and the diverse flora of rainforests, but also by a variety of insects, fungi, bacteria and protists. Passing this biodiversity on to future generations is one of the major challenges of humanity in the 21st century.

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Biodiversity is not an object to be unilaterally protected by humankind. The biodiversity, a wide variety of organisms, supports our existence as well as our comfortable life. The development of ecology, genomics and information science allows us to obtain a vast amount of information on biodiversity. Such emerging scientific investigations have highlighted the crucial roles of biodiversity in the sustainable food supply and the stable global environment.

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We shed new light on blessings brought by biodiversity and ecosystems based on interdisciplinary science. Our aim is to diagnose and restore biological functions of degraded ecosystems. Based on the integration of ecology, genomics, microbiology, and informatics, we evaluate and design networks of species with diverse biological functions. The technology of maximizing ecosystem-level functions and stability is applicable to the sustainable management of agroecosystems and aquaculture systems, adding new scientific platforms to the “portfolio” of scientific solutions for global environmental issues.