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

德克萨斯大学植物资源中心 包含超过100万个标本和4，600个模式标本。 该中心是世界上最活跃的研究标本馆之一。 世界上最大的植物标本库之一 来自美国西南部，墨西哥和中美洲。 几 较小的植物标本馆收藏已被吸收到工厂 近年来，资源中心和德克萨斯大学 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 将收藏品转移到新宿舍的最后阶段。 拟议的馆藏搬迁和重组 将使宝贵的研究资源更容易获得， 植物群落 自然历史收藏，如植物资源 中心是研究生物多样性不可或缺的工具， 地球上的生命 这些持续增长和改善 如果未来的几代人 系统学家、生态学家、地理学家和来自 不同的其他学科将拥有必要的资源， 他们的研究。

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.