Introduction
National role
The Biodiversity Unit consists of the Zoological Museum, Botanical Museum, Botanical Gardens and Bothnian Bay Research Station.
The unit curates, maintains and augments the biodiversity collections of the University of Oulu. The collections include c. 2.5 million museum specimens and 5500 plant taxa in the botanical gardens. The unit also maintains the Krunnit field station at the archipelago of the Bothnian Bay, and maintains field equipment Including boats, snow scooters.etc) of the Department of Biology.
