The Ecophysiology Facility is used as a teaching and research facility for UNLV Botany, Ecophysiology, and Ecology classes, funded and unfunded research projects. (Access to a Selected History …)

The greenhouse facility is nearly 2,100 square feet and is composed of four greenhouse bays and a headhouse. Two bays, each of 243 square feet, utilize an enclosed climatic control system, and are designed to supply elevated levels of CO2. Currently, they are running at 700 ppm. The two outer bays, each 533 square feet, are kept at ambient CO2 conditions. Much of the research carried out in the high CO2 bays are done so in tandem with field research being carried out at the Nevada Desert Face Facility .

The greenhouse, part of the Department of Biological Sciences, was built in 199_ just north of the Rod Lee Bigelow Health Sciences Building, in the northwest quadrant of the UNLV campus.