Home to one of the largest and most diverse systematics collections in the country with over 9 million specimens and world-class field stations, the Biodiversity Center provides scientists with opportunities to interact with and learn from millions of preserved specimens, living organisms and ecosystems.
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Biodiversity Collections featuring large and diverse groups of organisms from Texas and around the world:
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The collections include fish, amphibians, reptiles, insects, cave arthropods, and birds and mammals;
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They include an herbarium with more than a million specimens of plants—collected from around the world, including the largest such collection of Texas plants anywhere and specimens dating back to the 1760s.
- Also included are specimens in the genetic resources collection, which houses samples and extracted DNA from specimens elsewhere in the collections.
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UT Field Stations featuring rich opportunities for students and scientists at the:
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Brackenridge Field Laboratory consists of areas of rich natural vegetation which include a native bluestem prairie, old pasture land, former quarry, Firefly Meadow, Pecan Bottoms, and juniper woodlands.
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Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station has pine oak woodlands and savanna and is located outside of Austin in a classic rural field station setting.
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Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is a mixed oak-juniper savanna along the Balcones Escarpment with intermittent drainages and a network of cave and karst features.
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The White Family Outdoor Learning Center provides 266 acres of a "living classroom" with topographic, lithologic and hydrologic variability.
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The Marine Science Institute is a prime Gulf Coast location for research in marine science.
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The McDonald Obsevatory in West Texas provides an ample location for the study of the land and celestial universe.
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