对植物多样性和资源的了解从未如此重要。当我们面对气候变化和环境恶化的空前挑战时，有效的环境监测和保护取决于对植物及其栖息地的详细了解。该计划由大学和世界著名的爱丁堡皇家植物园（RBGE）共同运营。RBGE拥有世界上最鲜活的植物之一（四个地点的15,000种植物，占世界已知物种的5％），300万个标本的标本馆和英国的其中一个最全面的植物库。RBGE为广泛的生物体和地理区域提供了基于馆藏的生物多样性研究机会。这种多样性，再加上RBGE在世界各大洲的世界领先研究，为植物生物多样性提供了无与伦比的硕士学位课程。
Understanding plant diversity and resources has never been more important. As we face the unprecedented challenges of climate change and environmental degradation, effective environmental surveillance and conservation depend on detailed knowledge of plants and their habitats. Understanding plant diversity also allows us to understand how best to use these incredible organisms for a more sustainable future. This programme is run jointly by the University and the world-renowned Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). The RBGE is home to one of the world’s best living collections of plants (15,000 species across 4 sites, amounting to 5 Percentage of known world species), a herbarium of 3 million preserved specimens and one of the world’s most comprehensive botanical libraries. This diversity, coupled with the RBGE’s world-leading research, provides an unrivalled masters programme in plant biodiversity. RBGE offers collections-based biodiversity research opportunities across a wide spectrum of organisms and geographical regions. Throughout the MSc, you will develop expertise across fungi, lichens, algae and plants, developing excellent identification and research skills. These skills are invaluable across a great many research areas from ecology to evolutionary genetics, and very much in demand in the commercial and education sectors.