Dr. Sabine von Mering

Aufgabengebiete

• Biologische Datenwissenschaftlerin im Forschungsprogramm Zukunft der Sammlung

Forschung

• Sammlungserschließung und -vernetzung mit Fokus auf Sammlungsakteur:innen, Forschungsexpeditionen sowie verknüpfte Entitäten wie z.B. Objekte, Orte, Publikationen und Archivmaterial
  • Sammler:innen-Projekt (Link)
  • Offene Arbeitsgruppe FIND – Frauen in der Naturkunde (Link)
  • Internationales Netzwerk WOMNH – Women in natural history museum and collections (Link)
• Datenmodelle und Terminologien
  • TDWG Task Group Modelling Research Expeditions (Link)
• Distributed System of Scientific Collections – DiSSCo (Link)
  • DiSSCo Prepare – Distributed System of Scientific Collections, Preparatory Phase (Link)

Publikationen (Auswahl)

• von Mering S, Leachman S, Santos J, & Meudt HM (in press). Wikidata for Botanists: Benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data. Annals of Botany.
• Kaiser K, von Mering S (2024): Making Connections. Open Data for Transdisciplinary Provenance Research on Collections from Colonial Contexts. Peckiana - Senckenberg Monographs 1: 75–84. (Link)
• von Mering S, Cubey RWN, Endresen D, Hendriksen A, Leachman S, Mietchen D, Santos J (2024): Advancing Community Curation of Research Expeditions: A Collaborative Journey with Wikidata and Biodiversity Information Standards. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 8: e138921. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.8.138921
• Dhakal, S. & von Mering, S. (2024): Juncaginaceae. In: Watson, M.F., Akiyama, S., Ikeda, H., Pendry, C., Rajbhandari, K.R. & Shrestha, K.K. (Eds.). Flora of Nepal Vol. 10 (Acoraceae - Juncaceae). Department of Plant Resources, Ministry of Forest & Environment, Kathmandu. (Link)
• Malekmohammadi, M., Koutroumpa, K., Crespo, M. B., Domina, G., Korotkova, N., Akhani, H., von Mering, S., Borsch, T., Berendsohn, W. (2024): A taxonomic backbone for the Plumbaginaceae (Caryophyllales). PhytoKeys 243: 67-103. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.243.122784
• von Mering S, Stolze E, Kaiser K, Petersen M (2024): Sharing data, caring for collections. Open data on collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Research Ideas and Outcomes 10: e118851. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e118851
• von Mering S, Gardiner LM, Knapp S, Lindon H, Leachman S, Ulloa Ulloa C, Vincent S, Vorontsova MS (2023): Creating a multi-linked dynamic dataset: a case study of plant genera named for women. Biodiversity Data Journal 11: e114408. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e114408
• Hardy H, French L, Humphries J, von Mering S, Giere P, Berger F, Koivunen A, Grieb J, Vipp M, Smith VS (2023): Distributed Team Working - Approaches for DiSSCo. Research Ideas and Outcomes 9: e115454. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.9.e115454
• Schwarz A, Möhrle F, von Mering S (2023): Collections from Colonial Australia in Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde and the Challenges of Data Accessibility. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e111980. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111980
• von Mering S, Braun PJ-C, Cubey RWN, Groom Q, Haston EM, Hendriksen A, Johaadien R, Leachman S, Marsden L, Rainer H, Santos J, Endresen D (2023): Modelling Research Expeditions in Wikidata: Best Practice for Standardisation and Contextualisation. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e111427. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111427
• Parolini G, von Mering S, Petersen M (2023): Classifying Colonial Objects in Museum Collections with Machine Learning and Historical Knowledge. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e110872. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.110872
• Zanotti, C. A., Chiarini, F. E., von Mering, S., & Acosta, J. M. (2022): Análisis morfológicos y moleculares respaldan la identidad de Arenaria pycnophylloides (Caryophyllaceae, Arenarieae) y la exclusión del género Sabulina para la Flora Argentina. Darwiniana, Nueva Serie 10(2): 435–450. https://doi.org/10.14522/darwiniana.2022.102.1081
• Groom Q, Bräuchler C, Cubey RWN, Dillen M, Huybrechts P, Kearney N, Klazenga N, Leachman S, Paul DL, Rogers H, Santos J, Shorthouse DP, Vaughan A, von Mering S, Haston EM (2022): The disambiguation of people names in biological collections. Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e86089. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e86089
• von Mering S, Kaiser K, Petersen M (2022) Transforming Closed Silos into Shared Resources: Opening up data on historical collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 6: e93787. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.93787
• von Mering S, Akhani H, Arias S, Berendsohn W, Borsch T, Castañeda-Noa I, de Vos J, Dillenberger M, Eggli U, Fleischmann A, Flores-Olvera M, Hernández-Ledesma P, Kadereit G, Klak C, Korotkova N, Malekmohammadi M, Moore A, Nyffeler R, Ocampo G, Ortiz Díaz J, Oxelman B, Rabeler R, Schlumpberger B, Schuster T, Timaná M, Uotila P, Zuloaga F (2019): The Global Caryophyllales Initiative: Towards an updated taxonomic backbone and a dynamic monograph of a major plant group. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e35357. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.35357
• Berendsohn, W. G., Borsch, T., Güntsch, A., Kohlbecker, A., Korotkova, N., Luther, K., Müller, A., Plitzner, P. & von Mering, S. (2018): Using the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy to prepare and publish a treatment for the Caryophyllales Network: an online synthesis of the Nepenthaceae. – Willdenowia 48(3): 335–344. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48301
• Arias, S., Berendsohn, W. G., Borsch, T., Flores-Olvera, H., Ochoterena, H., von Mering, S. & Zuloaga, F. O. (2015): Caryophyllales 2015 in Berlin and the Global Caryophyllales Initiative. – Taxon 65: 425–429. https://doi.org/10.12705/652.60
• Hernández-Ledesma, P., Berendsohn, W. G., Borsch, T., von Mering, S., Akhani, H., Arias, S., Castañeda-Noa, I., Eggli, U., Eriksson, R., Flores-Olvera, H., Fuentes-Bazán, S., Kadereit, G., Klak, C., Korotkova, N., Nyffeler, R., Ocampo, G., Ochoterena, H., Oxelman, B., Rabeler, R. K., Sanchez, A., Schlumpberger, B. O. & Uotila, P. (2015): A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. – Willdenowia 45: 281–384. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.45.45301
• Borsch, T., Hernández-Ledesma, P., Berendsohn, W. G., Flores-Olvera, H., Ochoterena, H., Zuloaga F. O., von Mering, S. & Kilian, N. (2015): An integrative and dynamic approach for monographing species-rich plant groups - building the global synthesis of the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. – Perspect. Plant Ecol. Evol. Syst. 17: 284–300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2015.05.003
• von Mering, S. & Kadereit, J.W. (2015): Phylogeny, biogeography and evolution of Triglochin L. (Juncaginaceae) – Morphological diversification is linked to habitat shifts rather than to genetic diversification. – Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 83: 200–212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.014
• von Mering, S. & Kusber, W.-H. (2013): GBIF data network – infrastructure for biodiversity research - Open access to occurrence data of steppe species. – Pp. 441-446 in: Thüringer Ministerium für Landwirtschaft, Forsten, Umwelt und Naturschutz (ed.): Steppenlebensräume Europas Gefährdung, Erhaltungsmaßnahmen und Schutz. – Erfurt.
• von Mering, S. (2013): Tetroncium and its only species T. magellanicum (Juncaginaceae): distribution, ecology and lectotypification. – Willdenowia 43: 13–24. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.43.43102
• Köcke, A. V.*, von Mering, S.*, Mucina, L. & Kadereit, J. W. (2010): Revision of the Mediterranean and southern African Triglochin bulbosa complex (Juncaginaceae). – Edinburgh J. Bot. 67: 353–398. (* equal contribution). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960428610000041
• von Mering, S. & Kadereit, J. W. (2010): Systematics, phylogeny, and recircumscription of Juncaginaceae - a cosmopolitan wetland family. – Pp. 55–79 in: Seberg, O., Petersen, G., Barfod, A. S. & Davis, J. I. (ed.), Diversity, phylogeny, and evolution in the monocotyledons - Proceedings of the fourth international conference on the comparative biology of the monocotyledons and the fifth international symposium on grass systematics and evolution. – Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. (Link)