Botanical Garden of the Urals Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Institution Code: SVER
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About the Botanical Garden of the Urals Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
The Botanical Garden of the Ural Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences is the biggest regional center in plant acclimatization and cultivation, applied botany, plant taxonomy, forest ecosystems research, plant conservation and nature protection.
The basic directions of activity of the Institute Botanical Garden.
-Developing scientific principles and methods of acclimatisation and cultivation ofornamental, economically useful and endangered plants from all over the world in the Ural Region
-Developing effective methods of plant conservation and preservation of their genepool in the Ural Region, including establishment of a system of specially protected Natural territories (Natural Reserves) for conservation and of rare and endangered species of plants in the Ural Region.
-Developing scientific principles and technologies for use of the biological resources, such as renewable forest resources, providing their steady reproduction.
During recent years research has been carried out on:
- population ecology and population genetics of Pinaceae and Orchidaceae families;
- plant taxonomy;
- biodiversity;
- forest formation;
- conservation of endangered plants on the specific territories, that are under heavy anthropogenic pressure.
Main Address:
Botanical Garden of the Urals Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Russia, 620144, Yekaterinburg, 8 March street, 202a
Yekaterinburg
Sverdlovsk Region 620144 Russian Federation
Telephone: +7 343 2103859
Fax:
URL: botgard.uran.ru
Primary Email: common@botgard.uran.ru