Present, over 20 scientists work in the various research departments of the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz. They use the extensive collections of over 6 million animals, plants and geological objects in order to answer questions of systematics, taxonomy, ecology, geology, molecular biology and many other scientific fields. Furthermore, the collections are immensely valuable as an archive for documenting the occurrence of organisms and geological objects as well as their development in space and time. The scientific results are presented and explained to the general public through the exhibitions. In these, visitors to the museum can learn about evolution, about the geological development of Upper Lusatia and the occurrence of rare plants and animals in the region, about the rain forest and savannah as tropical habitats as well as about soil as a living ecosystem. Collection and research take place in 6 departments or sections (general zoology, entomology, soil zoology, botany, geology and molecular biology). Further information can be obtained by a click on the department name in the top line (these pages are partly still in German). ... [Information of the supplier, translated and modified]
Im Rahmen des Aufbaus eines deutschen GBIF-Knotenverbundes verfolgt der Botanische Knoten das Ziel der Schaffung eines gemeinsamen Zugangsportals für die botanischen Sammlungen und Datenbanken Deutschlands und deren Verknüpfung mit GBIF International, Schaffung von fachübergreifenden virtuellen Sammlungen (die Lebendsammlungen, Beobachtungsdaten und Herbarien vereinen), die Förderung der weiteren Vernetzung der Daten über WWW sowie einer engen Zusammenarbeit mit den anderen nationalen Knoten, GBIF International und anderen internationalen Organisationen. ... [Information des Anbieters]
IndExs comprises information on titles, abbreviations and bibliography of exsiccatae. Exsiccatae are defined here as "published, uniform, numbered sets of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels" (Pfister 1985). Please note that there are two similar latin terms: "exsiccata, ae" is feminine and used for a set of dried specimens as defined above, whereas the term "exsiccatum, i" is neutral and used for dried specimens in general. The output gives you all bibliographically important information on the series: the editor(s), title in its bibliographical correct form, standardized abbreviation of the series as to cite in specimen lists of scientific papers and the place of publication. ... [Information of the supplier]
This site is being made to speed up the general identification of dried specimens of Neotropical plants. It will be most useful to professional biologists and others doing species inventories of natural areas, ecology, and ethnobotany. It will be useful for identifying families, genera or plant species in regions for which comprehensive field guides are not available, or where manuals depend on the use of technical floral or fruit characters absent in the voucher specimens. It will even be useful to paleobotanists and others with interest in comparative morphology of tropical plants. To this end we are providing a desktop reference set of high-quality images of dried herbarium specimens for comparison. These will represent a broad range of Neotropical genera and common species. The underlying strategy is to have just a few examples of each species, specimens that are typical or illustrative of that species. Preference is given to specimens that have a good set of leaves as well as flowers or fruit, and to specimens with an authoritative identification. Specimens of juveniles will be included when available and when significantly different in appearance from adults. ... [Information of the supplier]
BRAHMS is an acronym for Botanical Research And Herbarium Management System. The BRAHMS Project, based at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, started in 1985. Since then, it has evolved through several software platforms and five main revisions. Ongoing BRAHMS development is closely integrated with research activity in the Department of Plant Sciences, notably the curation of the Oxford Herbaria and a series of taxonomy/floristic projects working on Acacia, Agathis, Leucaena, Lupinus, Strobilanthes and Mount Mulanje in Malawi. An Advisory Group was established for BRAHMS in 1999. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Nationaal Herbarium Nederland (National Herbarium of the Netherlands, NHN) was established in 1999 as the decentral merger of three major university herbaria in Leiden (L, better known as the Rijksherbarium), Utrecht (U) and Wageningen (WAG, Herbarium Vadense): decentral to safeguard the training of students in systematic botany at these three universities with broad training programmes in "green" biology ; merged to optimise co-operation in research, training and collection management, and to better comply with demands to underpin (inter)national policies on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. The training of taxonomists and herbarium curators from developing countries is considered a major task in this respect. With a collection of close to over 5.5 million specimens, the NHN is one of the largest herbaria in the world. All ca. 50,000 type-specimens have been made available on internet. The three libraries of the NHN are a unique resource covering botanical and mycological literature from the 16th century to the present. ... [Information of the supplier]
The combined herbaria of the University and ETH Zürich include some 3.5 Mio specimens of vascular plants, mosses, algae and fungi from all areas of the world. The herbarium of the Sukkulenten-Sammlung Zürich focuses entirely on the diversity of succulent plants from all over the world and counts about 25.000 specimens. ... [Information of the supplier]
The inventory of herbaria of Russia was carried out in 1996-1997, however its results have remained unpublished. Now, with the support of Federal agency of science and innovations, the information system "Herbaria of Russia", being a part of information system on genetic resources of the Russian Federation is created. For a lot of collections the updated information has been received. ... [Information of the supplier]
About 90 specimens are found in the herbarium of the Botanical Museum that believed to have once been part of the herbarium of Linné the elder or annotated by him. Eighty-two of them have been published by Ilkka Kukkonen and Kalevi Viljamaa in 1973. Images of the published specimens including photographs of the handwritten information are given together with the published explanatory texts from Kukkonen & Viljamaa (1973). ... [Information of the supplier]
The Herbarium Haussknecht (JE) is located at the Main University Building. It is the largest herbarium in Germany and houses, besides the plant specimen collections, a major botanical library and archives. The Herbarium Haussknecht houses ca. 3 million plant specimens of all systematic groups worldwide. Main focus of the collections is Thuringia (Germany), southwestern Asia, Cuba, and southeastern Europe. In the Herbarium Haussknecht herbarium material and other conserved plant material is stored, prepared, and loaned for taxonomic, plant geographical, and historical studies, students are trained, and scientific studies are conducted (flora of Thuringia, systematics of Baccharis (Asteraceae) and Festuca (Poaceae), flora of Cuba). ... [Information of the supplier]
