The Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) in 2016–2017
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conservation, Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG), fauna, grassland, GrassPlot, Palaearctic, vegetation, vegetationplot databaseAbstract
This report summarizes the activities and achievements of the Eurasian DryGrassland Group (EDGG) from mid-2016 through to the end of 2017. During
this period, the 13th Eurasian Grassland Conference took place in Sighişoara,
Romania, and the 14th conference was held in Riga, Latvia. Te 10th EDGG
Field Workshop on Biodiversity patterns across a precipitation gradient in the
Central Apennine mountains was conducted in the Central Apennines, Italy,
this time in addition to multi-scale sampling of vascular plants, bryophytes and
lichens, also including one animal group (leaf hoppers). Apart from the quarterly
issues of its own electronic journal (Bulletin of the Eurasian Dry Grassland
Group), EDGG also fnalised fve grassland-related Special Features/Issues during
the past 1.5 years in the following international journals: Applied Vegetation
Science, Biodiversity and Conservation, Phytocoenologia, Tuexenia and Hacquetia.
Beyond that, EDGG facilitated various national and supra-national vegetationplot databases of grasslands and established its own specialised database for
standardised multi-scale plot data of Palaearctic grasslands (GrassPlot).
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