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Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Naturalis)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
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Location
Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, Wageningen, PO: 6708 PB (Netherlands)
Structure
Type Of RI
Distributed
Coordinating Country
Netherlands
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational
since 2010
Scientific Description
Naturalis Biodiversity Center is a large-scale research facility hosting a natural history collection of over 37 million objects and over 100 researchers, who are experts in a wide range of organism groups. Naturalis has active partnerships with the Universities of Amsterdam, Leiden and Wageningen. Core expertise comprise theoretical systematics and the application of modern methods for taxonomy, evolutionary reconstructions, evo-devo research, ecological niche modelling, and biodiversity assessments. The joint capability of Naturalis includes a high profile on biodiversity informatics and a research community with proven project management experience.Currently the institute is distributed, but in the coming years all activities will be concentrated in a single site. In order to facilitate this the construction of a new extension to our current main building is foreseen. Our mission is: to explore, describe and understand biodiversity for the wellbeing of man and the future of our planet.
RI Keywords
Bioinformatics (including biodiversity informatics), Natural history archives, Natural history museum, Ecosystem services, Ecological niche modelling, Global change biology, Biodiversity, Molecular and morphological laboratoria, Evolution, Evo-devo, Tree of life research, DNA barcoding
Classifications
RI Category
Bio-informatics Facilities
Research Libraries
Research Data Service Facilities
Natural History Collections
Research Libraries
Research Data Service Facilities
Natural History Collections
Scientific Domain
Biological and Medical Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Services
DNA Barcoding Facility
DNA Barcoding Facility.
Equipment
Morphological and molecular laboratoria for systematic and biodiversity research.
Morphological and molecular laboratoria for systematic and biodiversity research.
Collaborations
Networks
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
EMBRC
CETAF - Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities
Date of last update: 12/07/2013