<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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 <italic>ad hoc</italic> 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, <italic>Palaearctic Grasslands</italic>, 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 (<italic>Tuexenia</italic>, <italic>Hacquetia</italic>, <italic>Flora</italic>) and contributed 13 chapters on grasslands and shrublands of the Palaearctic biogeographic realm to the <italic>Encyclopedia of the world’s biomes</italic>. 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.</p></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.

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

Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)

Department of Geobotany and Plant Ecophysiology

Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department for Ecology and Ecosystem Management

Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture

Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology

Department of Ecology and Environmental Conservation, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology

Department of Geobotany and Ecology, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of

Hacquetia

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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...

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

Published Online: Mar 01, 2021

Page range: 171 - 176

Received: Jan 10, 2021

Accepted: Jan 11, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hacq-2021-0007

Keywords
biodiversity, conservation, Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG), grassland, GrassPlot, vegetation-plot database

© 2021 Jürgen Dengler et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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

Published Online: Mar 01, 2021

Page range: 171 - 176

Received: Jan 10, 2021

Accepted: Jan 11, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hacq-2021-0007

Keywordsbiodiversity, conservation, Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG), grassland, GrassPlot, vegetation-plot database

© 2021 Jürgen Dengler et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
biodiversity, conservation, Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG), grassland, GrassPlot, vegetation-plot database