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Brooklyn Botanic Garden 2006 Annual Report
Scientific Research
Brooklyn Botanic Garden has had a long and distinguished history of accomplishment in the plant sciences, including work in plant systematics, breeding, and pathology. BBG's current research focuses on the urban environment and cultivated plants, with a goal of making research findings relevant to the general public as well as the scientific community.
In the metropolitan New York area, 450 plant species are currently listed as rare, threatened, or endangered, and the rapid increase in plant monocultures is weakening local ecosystems. By the beginning of the next century nearly two-thirds of the world's plant species could be lost forever. As a leading institution renowned for its botanic research, BBG continues to disseminate important scientific knowledge and to increase public awareness of the importance of studying, protecting, and preserving plant life.