Dipl.-Ing. Landeskultur und Umweltschutz

Dr. Jana Bürger has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Landscape Ecology Group since January 2024. In her research project MonA she aims to mobilise vegetation data from German monitoring programs for the use in biodiversity trend analysis in Germany.

Kontakt

• University of Rostock
• Landscape Ecology
• Faculty for Agriculture, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 6
• 18059 Rostock
• Office: Arbeitsgebäude III, Raum 11
• +49 381 498 3234
• jana.buerger(at)uni-rostock.de

Project
MonA
associated PostDoc to sMon

Experience
       2024 Habilitation

2021 - 2023 Habilitation grant

       2022 Project "Data Portal Hydrology", State Agency for Environment, Nature Protection and Geology MV

2016 - 2021 Project "Arable Weeds in Global Change", Chair of Phytomedicine, University Rostock

2012 - 2015 Post-Doc Chairs of Crop Health and Grassland and Fodder Sciences

       2010 Promotion
 

Publications

Colling, G. Glaser, M., Buholzer, S., Bürger, J., Chytrý, M., Fanfarillo, E., Follak, S., Jansen, F., Kolářová, M., Küzmič, F., Lososová, Z., Schumacher, M., Šilc, U., Wietzke, A., Dullinger, S., Essl, F. (2025): Ninety years of alien plant species accumulation across regional and local scales in central European fields,
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 383, 109483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2025.109483

Glaser, M., Dullinger, S., Moser, D., Wessely, J., Chytry, M., Lososova, Z., Axmanova, I., Berg, C., Bürger, J., Buholzer, S., Buldrini, F., Chiarucci, A., Follak, S., Kuzmič, F., Meyer, S., Pysek, P., Richner, N., Šilc, U., Steinkellner, S., Wietzke, A., Essl, F. (2024) Pronounced turnover of vascular plant species in Central European arable fields over 90 years. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 361, 108798. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108798

Bürger, J., Kuzmič, F. (2023) Vegetation survey methodology in arable weeds is reported with less detail from vegetation science than weed science. Vegetation Classification and Survey 4, 209–218. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.105300

Metcalfe, H., Bürger, J., von Redwitz, C., Cirujeda, A., Fogliatto, S., Dostatny, D.F., Gerowitt, B., Glemnitz,M., Gonzalez-Andujar, J.L., Hernandez Plaza, E., Izquierdo, J., Kolařova, M., Ņečajeva, J., Petit, S., Pinke, G., Schumacher, M., Ulber, L., Vidotto, F. , Fried, G. (2023) The utility of the “Arable Weeds and Management in Europe” database: Challenges and opportunities of combining weed survey data at a European scale. Weed Research 63, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/wre.12562

Bürger, J., Kuzmič, F., Šilc, U., Jansen, F., Bergmeier, E., Chytry, M., Cirujeda,A., Fogliatto, S., Fried, G., Dostatny, D.F., Gerowitt, B., Glemnitz, M., Gonzalez-Andujar, J.L., Hernandez Plaza, E., Izquierdo, J., Kolařova, M., Lososova, Z., Metcalfe, H., Ņečajeva, J., Petit, S., Pinke, G., Rašomavičius, V., von Redwitz, C., Schumacher, M., Ulber, L., Vidotto, F. (2022) Two sides of one medal: arable weed vegetation of Europe in agronomical weed surveys compared to phytosociological data. Applied Vegetation Science 25, e12460. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12460

Bürger, J., Malyshev, A.V., Colbach, N. (2020): Populations of arable weed species show intra-specific variability in germination base temperature but not in early growth rate. Plos ONE 15(10), e0240538. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240538

Kattge, J., Diaz, S., Tautenhahn, S., Werner, G.D.A., …, Bürger, J., … et al. (2020) TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology 26, 119-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904

Open access data sets

Bürger, J. (2019) Arable weed trait data set. https://www.try-db.org/TryWeb/Data.php#35.  DOI: 10.17871/TRY.35

Bürger, J., Colbach, N. (2020) Data to „Populations of arable weed species show intra-specific variability in germination base temperature but not in early growth rate”. DOI: 10.5061/dryad.nzs7h44p0