Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Naturalis is a research institute and natural history museum in Leiden. It manages the natural history collection of 42 million plants, animals, fungi, rocks, minerals and fossils. Together with the archives and libraries, the objects form an important source of information, research and knowledge. They are sustainably preserved and made accessible to third parties, both physically and digitally. The Naturalis collection is used for scientific research with themes on systematics, evolution and society. Naturalis researchers provide academic education with the universities of Leiden, Amsterdam and Wageningen. Naturalis is also the publisher of a few scientific journals.

Naturalis also uses its collection and research to tell varied, exciting and instructive stories about it. This can be experienced in the museum, at school, at home and in nature. Naturalis develops and creates exhibitions, apps, educational websites, events and educational rograms for students and individual nature lovers. Naturalis attracts an average of 420,000 visitors annually.

Gorteria - Dutch Botanical Archives is a journal for research on the wild flora of the Netherlands and is published by Naturalis, the FLORON Foundation, and the Koninklijke Nederlandse Botanische Vereniging (KNBV; Royal Dutch Botanical Society). Gorteria is an open access e-only journal. The articles are in English and Dutch. Gorteria is dedicated to obtain a better knowledge of the Dutch flora, in particular by publishing articles, including identification keys, taxonomic treatments, and nomenclature, on difficult species complexes and on species that are easily to be confused. Other important subjects are remarkable finds of plants, locations and habitats of rare species, autecological and plant geographic features, and changes in the Dutch flora as a result of human activity and climate change. The focus of the journal is on the Netherlands, but Gorteria welcomes all articles that contribute to a better knowledge of the Dutch flora, even if Dutch species are not directly the subject.