Welcome to the Department of Botany
Botany covers all aspects of the life of plants. It includes their structure and development, physiology and biochemistry, health and disease, relationships with other organisms and the environment (ecology), as well as traditional aspects of plant identification and classification. Our research uses these approaches to investigate New Zealand species from marine, through grasslands and forests, to alpine ecosystems. It covers all groups of ‘plants’: flowering plants, gymnosperms, ferns, mosses, algae, fungi, cyanobacteria, even viruses. Our undergraduate courses covers this range too, as do the postgraduate and honours student research projects.
News and Events
Visit the Seminars page for more information on departmental talks in 2011
7th Southern Connection Congress 2013
Southern lands and oceans: Life on the edge?
21 - 25 January 2013
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
The Southern Connection Congress links scientists interested in the natural sciences in the Southern Hemisphere. To date topics have included biogeography, ecology, conservation, ecophysiology, invasions, ethnography, phylogenetics, phylogeography and Earth and ocean processes.
Visit the 7th Southern Connection website
Congratulations to all our new graduates from the Department of Botany!
Floral sprays gifted to each graduate to wear on their gown.
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