About the Institution
The Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin (BGBM, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin) of the Freie Universität Berlin is a centre of biodiversity research in Europe, housing extensive scientific collections of herbarium specimens (about 3.5 million), one of the world's largest living plants collections, as well as the most complete botanical library in Germany.
About the Data Center
The taxonomic expertise and interest is that of the BGBM (see http://www.bgbm.org/en/research). Taxonomic research, through which plants are identified, described, named and classified, is a central element of our daily work. Furthermore, we study the phylogenesis of plants and the mechanisms of their evolution. We focus our research on the following model groups of flowering plants and microorganisms: Asterales, Caryophyllales and Diatoms.
Data archived:
- Botanical specimen data; Referenced multimedia objects
- Botanical observational data
- Botanical systematics and monographic works
- Experimental raw data (data sets and/or data packages) only if well documented and in formats and structures appropriate for long-term archiving
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