Plant Research & Conservation
The New York Botanical Garden is a world leader in plant research and conservation, using traditional and cutting-edge tools to discover, understand, and preserve Earth’s vast botanical diversity. For more content from NYBG scientists, ways to get involved with our conservation efforts, and upcoming events and lectures, sign up for our Science Newsletter.
NYBG's new Chief Science Officer is a botanist in a hurry
For the first time, the New York Botanical Garden has a chief scientist, Mauricio Diazgranados, who hails from the same region as so much of its collections.
Urban Conservation at NYBG
We are alive at the most important point in all of human history, when the decisions we make now will make or break the ecology of the planet on which we all depend for thousands of years to come. The most important lever we have to make a difference are cities. Cities need nature, and nature needs cities.
The Hand Lens
Take a closer look at our herbarium collections and the endless stories they can tell. See features on expeditions taken around the globe by our researchers, art and history represented in our specimens, and much more.
Article Alerts: Selected Science Staff Publications
Molecular systematics studies, new species descriptions, developmental genetics of seeds, land plant phylogenomics, the description of a 125 million year old tree fern fossil–this is the research of the scientists at The New York Botanical Garden.
