Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum BerlinDahlem Collections and
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem Collections and Research on the Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem 300 years of scientific tradition: • Famous names: Willdenow, Humboldt, Schweinfurth, Eichler, Urban, Engler … • 1822: Foundation of Berlin University, since then garden directors are at the same time professors of botany • around 1900: relocation of the garden (including herbarium and museum) to Dahlem Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765 – 1812) Adolf Engler (1844 -1930)
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem • A central unit of the Freie Universität with special tasks: Ø Collect plant diversity Ø Conserve plant diversity (ex situ) Ø Document plant diversity (in nature and in collections) Ø Carry out research on plant diversity Ø Exhibit the collections and educate about plant diversity (according to the BGBM transfer act & the International Council of Museums‘ guidelines)
Department: Research & Biodiversity Informatics • Head: Walter Berendsohn
Department: Research & Biodiversity Informatics Research & Development Group: Biodiversity Informatics and Scientific Information Systems Head: Anton Güntsch Ø Taxonomic computing. Prominent product: EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy. Ø Networking of primary biodiversity data. Prominent product: Bio. CASE. Ø Currently >25 group members in >10 projects (including 5 EU network projects)
Role in pro-i. Biosphere • Improve cooperation of and interoperability between e-infrastructures (Task 4. 1). • WP 3 Lead. • Organising Meeting Nr 4 (Berlin) and workshop „How to improve technical cooperation and interoperability at the einfrastructure level“.
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