A Call for Bio-Inspired Technologies: Promises and Challenges for Ecosystem Service Replacement.

IF 3.9 3区医学 Q1 ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Biomimetics Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI:10.3390/biomimetics10090578

Kristina Wanieck, M Alex Smith, Elizabeth Porter, Jindong Zhang, Dave Dowhaniuk, Andria Jones, Dan Gillis, Mark Lipton, Marsha Hinds Myrie, Dawn Bazely, Marjan Eggermont, Mindi Summers, Christina Smylitopoulos, Claudia I Rivera Cárdenas, Emily Wolf, Peggy Karpouzou, Nikoleta Zampaki, Heather Clitheroe, Adam Davies, Anibal H Castillo, Michael Helms, Karina Benessaiah, Shoshanah Jacobs

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Ecosystem services are crucial for animals, plants, the planet, and human well-being. Decreasing biodiversity and environmental destruction of ecosystems will have severe consequences. Designing technologies that could support, enhance, or even replace ecosystem services is a complex task that the Manufactured Ecosystems Project team considers to be only achievable with transdisciplinarity, as it unlocks new directions for designing research and development systems. One of these directions in the project is bio-inspiration, learning from natural systems as the foundation for manufacturing ecosystem services. Using soil formation as a case study, text-mining of existing scientific literature reveals a critical gap: fewer than 1% of studies in biomimetics address soil formation technological replacement, despite the rapid global decline in natural soil formation processes. The team sketches scenarios of ecosystem collapse, identifying how bio-inspired solutions for equitable and sustainable innovation can contribute to climate adaptation. The short communication opens the discussion for collaboration and aims to initiate future research.

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呼吁生物激励技术：生态系统服务替代的承诺与挑战。

生态系统服务对动物、植物、地球和人类福祉至关重要。生物多样性的减少和生态系统的环境破坏将产生严重后果。设计能够支持、增强甚至取代生态系统服务的技术是一项复杂的任务，人造生态系统项目团队认为只有通过跨学科才能实现，因为它为设计研究和开发系统开辟了新的方向。项目的其中一个方向是生物灵感，从自然系统中学习，作为制造生态系统服务的基础。以土壤形成为例，对现有科学文献的文本挖掘揭示了一个关键的差距：尽管全球自然土壤形成过程迅速减少，但只有不到1%的仿生学研究涉及土壤形成技术替代。该团队概述了生态系统崩溃的情景，确定了公平和可持续创新的生物启发解决方案如何有助于气候适应。简短的交流开启了合作的讨论，旨在开启未来的研究。

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