The New York Botanical Garden is a scientific and educational institution and an indoor and outdoor museum of plants with living collections arranged in gardens and landscapes across its 250-acre site, and it is subject to New York State’s time...
For centuries we have viewed plants and fungi in isolation. Tried to understand a tree, a flower or a mushroom absent the rich context in which it lives. Recently, scientists have come to view interactions, whether between organisms (biotic) or...
Besides the daily love and care we show to our collections, the Herbarium has launched The Hand Lens as our way to tell the stories behind the specimens and to make the Virtual Herbarium more accessible to the public. We...
For the past 25 years, The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium has been digitizing our collections and making them freely available online through the C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium. This incredible resource documents the world’s biodiversity and is the foundation...
The latest issue of BioScience features an article on the importance of natural history collections. Our very own Barbara Thiers is featured in this article! The Evolution of Natural History Collections: New research tools move specimens, data to center stage. by...
The final version of a report entitled, “Extending U.S. Biodiversity Collections to Promote Research and Education” is now available (https://bcon.aibs.org/2019/04/04/bcon-report-extending-u-s-biodiversity-collections-to-promote-research-and-education/). Both the full report (about 23 pages) and a shorter illustrated version (summary brochure) can be downloaded. Readers of the Herbaria...
Digitized herbarium specimens have so many potential uses beyond biodiversity research. iDigBio recently hosted a deep learning workshop to bring together researchers to discuss ways to use herbarium specimens for recording trait data and tracking phenology and the role machine...
The C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium has just added its four millionth specimen! This specimen is a newly described lichen species called Lecanora lendemeri E.Tripp & C.A.Morse. It was named in honor of NYBG’s lichen curator, Dr. James Lendemer. This...