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Facts & Figures

July 2010

Contacting us:

Australian National Botanic Gardens

ANBG Postal Address:

GPO Box 1777 CANBERRA, ACT, 2601 AUSTRALIA

ANBG Street Address:

Clunies Ross Street, ACTON, ACT, AUSTRALIA

ANBG Telephone: (02) 6250-9450
ANBG Facsimilie: (02) 6250-9599
ANBG Email: anbg-info@anbg.gov.au
or:   givenname.surname@environment.gov.au

Friends of the ANBG: (02) 6250-9548
Café (Hudsons at the Gardens): (02) 6248-9680 Email: hudsonscatering@bigpond.com
Shop (The Botanical Bookshop): (02) 6257-3302 Email: sales@botanicalbookshop.com.au

ANBG staff telephone list

ANBG Website: http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/

Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
Australian National Herbarium

CPBR Postal Address:

GPO Box 1600 CANBERRA, ACT, 2601 AUSTRALIA

CPBR Telephone: (02) 6246-5108
CPBR Facsimilie: (02) 6246-5249

CPBR staff telephone list

CPBR Email: cpbr-info@anbg.gov.au
CPBR Website: http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cpbr/

ANBG Mission:

To grow, study and promote Australian plants (Mission Statement)

ANBG Opening Hours

ANBG General Description:

Total area

90ha

Developed Area

40ha

Latitude

35 ° 17' South

Longitude

149 ° 7' East

Altitude

571-677 metres

Rainfall

664 mm (details since 1968) (2005 info)

First planting

1949

Officially opened

20 Oct 1970

Executive Staff:

Executive Director ANBG:
Judy West
Director CPBR:
vacant

General Manager: Peter Byron

Deputy Director (Science and Information): Jim Croft

 

Curator, Living Collection : David Taylor
Manager, Development and Trades: Craig Cosgrove
Manager, Communications & Visitor Services: Steve Speer
Manager (Curator), Australian National Herbarium: Brendan Lepschi
Manager, Botanical Databases: Greg Whitbread
Manager, Botanical Information Group: Murray Fagg
Manager, Administration : Francoise Zaalen-Arbaut

Statistics:

ANBG Visitors

2008-2009 financial year

2009 calendar year

Friends led walks

Friends' Guided Tours financial year 2006-2007

ANBG Education Service Statistics

School groups for 2007-08 financial year:
Students for 2007-08 financial year: 13,208

Calendar Year
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007

2008

2009

JANUARY

13 groups
1,333 participants

14 groups
3,307 participants
2 groups
3,034 participants
14 groups
5,224 participants

22 groups
5425 participants

9 groups
4320 participants

0 groups
0 participants

 

FEBRUARY

4 groups
144 participants

  4 groups
91 participants
  13 groups
598 participants
5 groups
129 participants

10 groups
198 participants

6 groups
167 participants

8 groups
240 participants

 

MARCH

22 groups
1,847 participants

  22 groups
971 participants
  15 groups
774 participants
23 groups
1,029 participants

19 groups
701 participants

17 groups
686 participants

14 groups
589 participants

 

APRIL

12 groups
857 participants

  14 groups
717 participants
  7 groups
381 participants
22 groups
930 participants

21 groups
677 participants

6 groups
257 participants

16 groups
755 participants

 

MAY

26 groups
1,054 participants

55 groups
2,933 participants
 
29 groups
1,358 participants
 
34 groups
2,142 participants

32 groups
1320 participants

28 groups
1312 participants

17 groups
958 participants

 

JUNE

21 groups
1,000 participants

  32 groups
1,495 participants
  23 groups
1,130 participants
18 groups
1,037 participants

17 groups
940 participants

24 groups
1122 participants

39 groups
1286 participants

 

JULY

8 groups
334 participants

3 groups
71 participants 
25 groups
1,223 participants 
17 groups
821 participants

19 groups
603 participants

6 groups
273 participants

13 groups
460 participants

 

AUGUST

23 groups
1,042 participants

  34 groups
2,018 participants
  23 groups
736 participants
33 groups
1,641 participants

30 groups
1272 participants

40 groups
1811 participants

31 groups
1130 participants

 

SEPTEMBER

21 groups
1,190 participants

  46 groups
1,929 participants
  26 groups
1,118 participants
45 groups
1,958 participants

54 groups
2478 participants

46 groups
2275 participants

26 groups
956 participants

 

OCTOBER

26 groups
834 participants

  25 groups
1,136 participants
  27 groups
1,095 participants
31 groups
1,357 participants

35 groups
1254 participants

26 groups
1186 participants

34 groups
1345 participants

 

NOVEMBER

28 Groups
1221 Participants

  38 groups
1,988 participants
  46 groups
2,973 participants

38 groups
2,401 participants

55 groups
2428 participants

44 groups
1956 participants

146 groups
2064 participants

 

DECEMBER

7 Groups
363 Participants

  17 groups
778 participants
  12 groups
569 participants

11 groups
587 participants

23 groups
1059 participants

20 groups
979 participants

25 groups
1236 participants

 

TOTAL GROUPS
PARTICIPANTS

211 groups
11,189 participants

  312 groups
17,614 participants
  248 groups
14,989 participants

291 groups
14,267 participants

337 groups
18355 participants

264 groups
12044 participants

269 groups
11919 participants

 

ANBG Living Collections (July 2010*)

 

Number of taxa

Number of specimens

Total

6,077*

80,441*

Open ground (plantings)

5,096

67,033

Controlled Environment
Glasshouses, poly-house, etc

1,767

5,774

Under propagation
(trays / pots)

627

4,297

Seed collections

2,964

-

Annual plantings

Annual Year

plants planted

2002-03

8,950

2003-04

9,187

2004-05

12,108

2005-06

15,110

2006-07

15,478

2007-08

6,355

2008-09

2,755

2009-10

4,000

   

Australian National Herbarium (Jan 2009)

CANB = Australian National Herbarium in Canberra

GROUP

Total no. Specimens

Total no. specimens databased

Percent databased (%)

Total no. Types

Dicots

628,255

456,663

72.7

5,365

Monocots

159,530

142,503

89.3

1,418

Gymnosperms

4,045

3,971

98.2

31

Pteridophytes

19,890

19,604

98.6

97

Mosses

100,002

58,952

59.0

172

Hepatics

29,728

18,490

62.2

94

Hornworts

435

435

100.0

1

Lichens

149,818

80,421

53.7

893

Fungi

11,654

11,654

100.0

90

Slime Moulds

152

145

95.4

0

***Algae (incl. Lucus colln.   c. 5,468)

7,027

405

5.8

1

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

1,110,536

793,243

71.4

8,162

 

*** Lucus Collection is on long term loan at NSW and is being databased by NSW

 

QRS was Australian National Herbarium at Atherton, North Queensland. - This collection is now part of the Australian Tropical Herbarium (CNS) located in Cairns and its statistics are reported separately.

CANB figures for the year 2008

Mounting - cryptogam

1,331

Mounting - vascular

14,427

Mounting - Total

15,758

 

 

New Accessions - v & c

9,459

 

 

Databasing additions

29,278

Total specimens databased

793,243

Total no. specimens

1,110,536

Herbarium Loans & Exchange transactions 1 Jan 2008 – 31 Dec 2008
 
2008
No. of Dispatches
No. of Items
Out-Loans sent
37
2,914
Out-Loans returned
34
3,806
In-Loans received
24
2,421
In-Loans returned
23
1,689
In-Loans transferred
4
138
Exchange Sent
39
4,851
Exchange Received
75
4,159

Total transactions for 2008 were 236 involving 19,978 specimens

Plant identifications for the public via the ANBG Visitor Centre

Identified by Herbarium staff:   2006 = 156;   2007 = 186;   Jan-June 2008 = 87

Plant Names (end of June 2009)

Australian Plant Name Index (APNI):

Total no. plant name reference records: 207,798
No. created in 2008-09: 18,866

Australian Plant Census (APC)

Total no. synonymy & reference records: 43,342
No. created in 2008-09: 8,439

Photograph Collection (end of June 2010)

Total number of 35mm slides: 50,460

Total Images in collection 30 June 2010: 63,315

Images added to collection 2009-2010: 6,481

Plant portraits and whole plant profiles

48,264

Number of distinct plant taxa in collection

11,202

Non-plant slides

15,051

Digital images on web

25,902

Slides contributed to collection 2009-10

430

Slides digitized 2009-10

1,129

Digital images added 2009-10

5,835

Images donated under tax incentives scheme 2008-09

0

Images donated (not tax incentives scheme)

0

Slides borrowed 2009-10

59

Images used under licence 2009-10

514

Number of licences issued for 2008-2009

78

 

Web site use (January 2010)

www.anbg.gov.au (includes ANBG and CPBR)
= www.cpbr.gov.au

ANBG web server and IBIS Database stats for year:
24 million hits deliver nearly a Terabyte of data in 18 million pages to 2.6 million client networks.
1.2 million of these requests are direct, database queries.

Public email Enquiries or Requests answered per month in 2008
Jan=41; Feb=103; Mar=70; Apr=72; May=83; Jun= 88; Jul=114; Aug=91

Web figures at January 2010 (source = DEWHA Maxamine web analysis)

Number of HTML web pages in website

81,553

Number of images (mostly JPEGs) on site

65,899

Total number of objects accessable from home page

149,239

HTML pages successfully accessed in June 2009

1,255,696

Average HTML pages successfully accessed per day, June 2009

43,300

Web requests made to IBIS database per day in June 2009

6,307

Photographs accessed from database each day in June 2009

27,756

Average data transferred per day in June 2009

1.56 gigabytes

ANBG Library (2004/2005)

Totals
Number of book titles: 13,356
Number of serial titles: 650
Maps: 5000
Audio-visual titles: 236
Rare book collection: 350
Archive collection: 1256

Actions in 2004/2005
Items added to collection: 1376
Loans: 3510
Reference enquiries: 810

ANBG Finance (2005/2006)

ANBG Staffing levels (May 2006)

Total Staff Allocation: 60.7

 


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