Compact Storage Equipment, Herbarium of Brigham Young University

杨百翰植物标本馆大约有35万个 标本，主要来自犹他州。 的持有量 这个植物标本馆可能是世界上最好的 这一地区的植物。 这个系列有 广泛用于山间植物群的准备 和犹他州的植物群，这个标本馆是主要的资源 对于我们理解植物区系之间的过渡 东部是落基山脉，西部是大盆地。 美国西部利益编年史研究 从这一系列的大。 斯坦利·威尔士博士， 植物标本馆，一直负责收集的稳定的 过去几十年的增长，他现在建议安装一个 可移动的“压缩式”植物标本箱的新储存系统。 这一改善将支持多年的持续增长， 收藏品 自然历史收藏品，如杨百翰博物馆 植物标本馆是了解 地球上生命的多样性。 它们是不可或缺的， 许多科学领域的研究，包括但不限于 系统和进化生物学，生态学，地理学， 节约 继续支持和改善这些 收藏品将为未来几代研究人员提供 获得关键的研究资源。

The Brigham Young Herbarium contains approximately 350,000 specimens, primarily from the state of Utah. The holdings of this herbarium probably constitute the world's best representation of the plants of this area. This collection has been used extensively for preparation of the Intermountain Flora and the Flora of Utah, and this herbarium is the primary resource for our understanding of the transition between the floras of the Rocky Mountains to the east and the Great Basin to the West. Research on the biogeography of the American West benefits greatly from this collection. Dr. Stanley Welsh, Curator of the Herbarium, has been responsible for the collection's steady growth over the past decades, and he now proposes to install a new storage system of movable "compatorized" herbarium cases. This improvement will support many years of continued growth of the collection. Natural history collections such as the Brigham Young Herbarium constitute the a valuable resource for understanding the diversity of life on earth. They are indispensable to research in many fields of science, including but not limited to systematic and evolutionary biology, ecology, biogeography, and conservation. The continued support and improvement of these collections will provide future generations of investigators with access to critical research resources.