The Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) in 2019–2020

Dengler, Jürgen; Aleksanyan, Alla; Ambarlı, Didem; Biurrun, Idoia; Dembicz, Iwona; Kuzemko, Anna; Török, Péter; Venn, Stephen

doi:10.2478/hacq-2021-0007

Abstract

This report summarizes the activities and achievements of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) from July 2019 to December 2020. During this period, Covid-19 allowed only one live event, the 14th EDGG Field Workshop to the alpine vegetation of Switzerland, organised ad hoc as a replacement for the cancelled Field Workshop in the Ukrainian steppes. The cancelled Eurasian Grassland Conference in Spain found a partial replacement in “Talk Grasslands!”, a series of online talks during winter 2020/2021. EDGG’s own diamond open access periodical, Palaearctic Grasslands, is a novel combination of scientific journal, photo magazine and member newsletter. With five issues during the reporting time it contributed much to EDGG’s attractiveness. EDGG edited four Special Features in international journals (Tuexenia, Hacquetia, Flora) and contributed 13 chapters on grasslands and shrublands of the Palaearctic biogeographic realm to the Encyclopedia of the world’s biomes. EDGG’s vegetation-plot database GrassPlot with multi-scale and multi-taxon diversity data of grasslands and other open habitats of the Palaearctic is now integrated into the EDGG website with the GrassPlot Diversity Explorer.

References

Ambarlı, D., Naqinezhad, A. & Aleksanyan, A. 2020: Grasslands and shrublands of the Middle East and the Caucasus. In: Goldstein, M.I., DellaSala, D.A. & DiPaolo, D.A. (eds.): Encyclopedia of the world’s biomes. Volume 3: Forests – trees of life. Grasslands and shrublands – sea of plants. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 714–724.10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12142-6
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Apostolova, I., Dengler, J., Di Pietro, R., Gavilán, R.G. & Tsiripidis, I. 2014: Dry grasslands of Southern Europe: syntaxonomy, management and conservation. Hacquetia 13: 5–18. DOI: https://doi.org/0.2478/hacq-2014-001510.2478/hacq-2014-0015
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Biurrun, I., Burrascano, S., Dembicz, I., Guarino, R., Kapfer, J., Pielech, R., Garcia-Mijangos, I., Wagner, V., Palpurina, S., (…) & Dengler, J. 2019: GrassPlot v. 2.00 – first update on the database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands. Palaearctic Grasslands 44: 26–47.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Boch, S., Becker, T., Deák, B., Dengler, J. & Wagner, V. 2020: Traditional land use, management and biodiversity of European semi-natural grasslands – Editorial to the 15th EDGG Special Feature. Tuexenia 40: 401–407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14471/2020.40.026
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Borza, S., Deák, B., Godó, L. & Valkó, O. 2020: Conservation values of the alkaline grasslands – Hortobágy National Park, East Hungary. Palaearctic Grasslands 46: 64–72.10.21570/EDGG.PG.46.64-72
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Deák, B., Becker, T., Boch, S., Dengler, J. & Wagner, V. 2019: Restoration, monitoring, conservation and phytosociology of semi-natural and natural grasslands in Central Europe – Editorial to the 14th EDGG Special Feature. Tuexenia 39: 309–313. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14471/2019.39.019
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Dembicz, I., Kozub, Ł., Bobrowska, I. & Dengler, J. 2020: Grasslands of the mineral islands in the Biebrza National Park, Poland. Palaearctic Grasslands 47: 43–5110.21570/EDGG.PG.47.43-51
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Dengler, J., Janišová, M., Török, P. & Wellstein, C. 2014: Biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands: a synthesis. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 182: 1–14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2013.12.01510.1016/j.agee.2013.12.015
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Dengler, J., Boch, S., Filibeck, G., Chiarucci, A., Dembicz, I., Guarino, R., Henneberg, B., Janišová, M., Marcenò, C., (…) & Biurrun, I. 2016: Assessing plant diversity and composition in grasslands across spatial scales: the standardised EDGG sampling methodology. Bulletin of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group 32: 13–30.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Dengler, J., Wagner, V., Dembicz, I., García-Mijangos, I., Naqinezhad, A., Boch, S., Chiarucci, A., Conradi, T., Filibeck, G., (…) & Biurrun, I. 2018: GrassPlot – a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands. Phytocoenologia 48: 331–347. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2018/026710.1127/phyto/2018/0267
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Dengler, J., Aleksanyan, A., Ambarlı, D., Biurrun, I., Dembicz, I., Kuzemko, A., Török, P., Venn, S. & Vrahnakis, M. 2019: The Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) in 2018–2019. Hacquetia 18: 147–154. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hacq-2019-001010.2478/hacq-2019-0010
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Dengler, J., Matthews, T.J., Steinbauer, M.J., Wolfrum, S., Boch, S., Chiarucci, A., Conradi, T., Dembicz, I., Marcenò, C., (…) & Biurrun, I. 2020a: Species-area relationships in continuous vegetation: Evidence from Palaearctic grasslands. Journal of Biogeography 60: 72–86.10.1111/jbi.13697
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Dengler, J., Biurrun, I., Boch, S., Dembicz, I. & Török, P. 2020b: Grasslands of the Palaearctic biogeographic realm: introduction and synthesis. In: Goldstein, M.I., DellaSala, D.A. & DiPaolo, D.A. (eds.) Encyclopedia of the world’s biomes. Volume 3: Forests – trees of life. Grasslands and shrublands – sea of plants. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 617–637.10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12432-7
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Dengler, J., Cykowska-Marzencka, B., Bruderer, T., Dolnik, C., Neumann, P., Riedel, S., Seiler, H., Zhang, J. & Dembicz, I. 2020c: Sampling multi-scale and multi-taxon plant diversity data in the subalpine and alpine habitats of Switzerland: Report on the 14th EDGG Field Workshop. Palaearctic Grasslands 47: 14–42.10.21570/EDGG.PG.47.14-42
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Hilpold, A., Kirschner, P. & Dengler, J. 2020: Proposal for a standardized surveying methodology for orthopteroid insects. Palaearctic Grasslands 46: 42–57.10.21570/EDGG.PG.46.52-57
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Kovtoniuk, A. 2020: Spontaneous grassland vegetation of the garden and park landscapes of Middle Pobuzhzhia (Central Ukraine). Palaearctic Grasslands 45: 25–33.10.21570/EDGG.PG.45.25-33
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Kuzemko, A., Vaysliuk, O., Marushchak, O. & Kolomytsev, G. 2020: 730,000 hectares of grasslands are included in the Emerald Network of Ukraine. Palaearctic Grasslands 45: 89–93.10.21570/EDGG.PG.45.89-93
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Nowak, A., Świerszcz, S., Nowak, S. & Nobis, M. 2020: Classification of tall-forb vegetation in the Pamir-Alai and western Tian Shan Mountains (Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, Middle Asia). Vegetation Classification and Survey 1: 191–217. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS/2020/6084810.3897/VCS/2020/60848
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Pachlatko, J., Wyttenbach, M. & Dengler, J. 2019: Alpine grassland vegetation at Gornergrat (Canton of Valais, Switzerland): Vegetation mapping for environmental planning. Palaearctic Grasslands 43: 23–37.10.21570/EDGG.PG.43.23-37
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Török, P. & Dengler, J. 2018: Palaearctic grasslands in transition: overarching patterns and future prospects. In: Squires, V.R., Dengler, J., Feng, H. & Hua, L. (eds.): Grasslands of the world: diversity, management and conservation. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 15–26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2020.15168510.1016/j.flora.2020.151685
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Török, P., Neuffer, B., Heilmeier, H., Bernhardt, K.-G. & Wesche, K. 2020: Climate, landscape history and management drive Eurasian steppe biodiversity. Flora 271: Article 151685. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2020.15168510.1016/j.flora.2020.151685
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Valkó, O., Labadessa, R., Palpurina, S., Burrascano, S., Ushimaru, A. & Venn, S. 2019: Conservation and diversity of Palaearctic grasslands – Editorial to the 5th EDGG special issue in Hacquetia. Hacquetia 18: 149–152. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hacq-2019-001110.2478/hacq-2019-0011
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Vrahnakis, M.S., Janišová, M., Rūsiņa, S., Török, P., Venn, S. & Dengler, J. 2013: The European Dry Grassland Group (EDGG): stewarding Europe’s most diverse habitat type. In: Baumbach, H. & Pfützenreuter, S. (eds.): Steppenlebensräume Europas – Gefährdung, Erhaltungsmaßnahmen und Schutz. Thüringer Ministerium für Landwirtschaft, Forsten, Umwelt und Naturschutz, Erfurt, pp. 417–434.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Wesche, K., Ambarlı, D., Kamp, J., Török, P., Treiber, J. & Dengler, J. 2016: The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis. Biodiversity and Conservation 25: 2197–2231. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-016-1214-710.1007/s10531-016-1214-7
Search in Google Scholar Back to article

The Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) in 2019–2020

Abstract

Paradigm

My account