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Terrestrial Ecology Research Group - TUM
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We are the Terrestrial Ecology Research Group at TU Munich in Freising - headed by Wolfgang Weisser. We investigate patterns and drivers of biodiversity change in agricultural, natural and urban ecosystems.
An interesting example of one of the system she has worked on involving Solenopsis ants and the invasive coffee borer in the Colombian coffee plantations; filmed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKff...
Solenopsis picea depredando larvas de broca Hypothenemus hampei HD
YouTube video by Luis Miguel Constantino Chuaire
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November 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
More information on the work that Lisa does with the Bayrische KulturlandStiftung can be found on the webpage: www.bayerischekulturlandstiftung.de/projekte/pil...
Many other interesting projects to be found there as well, so worth a visit!
Pilotprojekt Artenschutz im Knoblauchsland - von Landwirten für Landwirte
Pilotprojekt für bodenbrütende Vogelarten in Mittelfranken zur Integration der Kompensation in den Gemüsebau über PiK-Maßnahmen auf wechselnden Flächen.
www.bayerischekulturlandstiftung.de
October 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
More group activity surfaced! Brandon Mak with an ode to pigeons; Laura Windorfer connecting ecology and architecture, and former group member Victoria Culshaw presenting her work on modeling ecosystem processes with plant and animal functional groups.

More may follow - documentation incomplete.
September 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
More of our team. Meret Pundsack, Robert Künast, and Wolfgang Weisser.
September 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A few of our members in action: Fabio Sweet, Lisa Merkens, Zoe Hentschel and Elikplim Setordjie presenting their works.
September 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Implementation of this design on the building would not have been possible without Fabio Sweet and Kathrin Dörfler, who made sure that everything came together successfully.

TZ also wrote a piece on it; which can be found here:
www.tz.de/muenchen/sta...
@theweirdfox.bsky.social
Hier sollen Tiere einziehen: Erste Nistfassade Deutschlands aus dem 3D-Drucker
In Neuperlach wurde nun die erste Nistfassade aus einem 3D-Drucker eingeweiht – am Feuerwerk-Jugendzentrum Südpolstation.
www.tz.de
July 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM