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Birds in the Botanical Garden

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Breeding birds in the Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg In 2018, a comprehensive count of the birds in the Munich-Nymphenburg Botanical Garden was carried out. The result: 45 bird species were discovered in the garden, 26 species even bred in the garden. A comprehensive census of the birds in the Munich Botanical Garden during the 2018 breeding […]

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Alga of the year 2022

Forschung | News

Stylodinium Stylodinium caught the scientists’ attention because it behaves differently from its relatives in the Dinophyta group: Stylodinium lives in some of our native bogs and attaches itself to other algae, although it can actually swim by itself. Prof. Dr. Marc Gottschling from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and Dr. Urban Tillmann from […]

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Alpine plants

Forschung

Am Botanischen Garten München-Nymphenburg ist die Sammlung alpiner Pflanzen in ihrem Umfang und in ihrer Qualität einzigartig.

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Orchid research

Forschung

For more than 20 years, intensive research has been conducted on flower scents at the Munich Botanical Garden. In nature, they play an important role in the communication between flowers and their pollinators. With the help of flower scents, pollinators find the flowers they are looking for. In this context, visual orientation usually has only […]

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Database registration of our plant collection

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The scientific value of botanic gardens depends on the documentation of the origin of their cultivated plants and the accessibility of the corresponding data for international research. Both require a great deal of expertise, time and money. Die BesThe population database of the Munich-Nymphenburg Botanical Garden includes 33,878 genetic individuals; 16,858 species, 3,269 genera, 341 […]

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Impact of climate change in the Alps

Forschung

Temperatures in the Alps have risen by almost two degrees Celsius over the past 120 years – almost twice the global average. The climatic changes have a significant impact on the very sensitive ecosystem of the Alpine region: climatic changes lead to temporal shifts in plant life rhythms, such as leaf unfolding, flowering, fruit ripening […]

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