Support for Systematic Collections, The Plant Resources Center, University of Texas

德克萨斯大学植物资源中心拥有100多万个标本和4600个类型标本。该中心是世界上最活跃的植物标本馆之一，也是美国西南部、墨西哥和中美洲植物标本的主要储存库之一。近年来，植物资源中心吸收了几个较小的植物标本馆，德克萨斯大学提供了新装修的空间来适应这种增长。贝丽尔·辛普森博士，中心主任，正在监督将藏品转移到新区域的最后阶段。对馆藏的重新安置和重组将使植物界更容易获得宝贵的研究资源。像植物资源中心这样的自然历史收藏是研究地球上生命多样性不可或缺的工具。如果未来的系统学家、生态学家、生物地理学家和其他不同学科的研究人员想要为他们的研究提供必要的资源，这些收藏的持续增长和改进将是至关重要的。

The Plant Resources Center of the University of Texas contains over one million specimens and 4,600 type specimens. The Center is one of the most active research herbariums in the world, and one of the premier repositories of plant specimens from the southwest U.S., Mexico, and Central America. Several smaller herbarium collections have been absorbed into the Plant Resources Center during recent years, and the University of Texas has provided newly renovated space to accommodate this growth. Dr. Beryl Simpson, Director of the Center, is overseeing the final stages of transferring the collections into new quarters. The proposed relocation and reorganization of the collections will make valuable research resources more accessible to the botanical community. Natural history collections such as the Plant Resources Center are indispensable tools for research into the diversity of life on Earth. The continued growth and improvement of these collections will be critical if future generations of systematists, ecologists, biogeographers, and investigators from diverse other disciplines are to have the essential resources for their research.