The Institute also possesses the Field Experimental Station with extensive field collections of economic plants and Coastal Biological Station for ecological investigations of the Curonian Spit, Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic Sea.

Research at the Institute deals with plants, fungi and microorganisms at organism, species, population, community and ecosystem levels answering challenges of modern changing environment. The Institute makes significant contribution to national ecological monitoring and environmental policy.

The Institute maintains several collections: the largest national collection of fungi, second largest collection of vascular plants and bryophytes as well as living collections of economic plants and microorganisms.

Together with Vilnius University, the Institute prepares scientists and highly qualified lecturers for the universities in Lithuania.

The Institute, together with Vilnius University, have been granted the right to doctoral studies. The Doctor's Degree is conferred in the field of biomedical sciences (B 000) in the trend of botany (04 B) and in the branch of  microbiology, bacteriology, virology, mycology (B 230) of the biology (01 B) trend.
 

Research trends:

• Research into the status of environmental quality, patterns and mechanisms of structure, functioning, sensitivity, vulnerability, genetic diversity, adaptations, microevolution of natural ecosystems, habitats, species, communities under global change and anthropogenic impact, development of theoretical fundamentals and prediction

• Research and prognosis into the status, change and prediction of Lithuanian natural and biological    resources, restoration and scientific justification of use.

Head of the Institute – Dr. Juozas Labokas, phones: +370 5 2711618, +370 5 2729930; e-mail: ; e-mail: juozas.labokas@botanika.lt

General information – Julija Miklušienė, phone +370 5 2711618; fax +370 5 2729950; e-mail: julija.miklusiene@botanika.lt