Data from the EDGG-affiliated regional grassland databases have been contributed to the European (EVA) and the global (sPlot) vegetation-plot databases and are there used for many general and grassland-specific studies. In the future, also those data from GrassPlot that are not anyway in EVA and sPlot will be contributed to these mega-databases.
Left: Dwarf-shrub community, Etna Iuglio, Italy. Middle: Forest-steppe landscape in Khakassia, Siberia. Right: Meso-xeric grassland, Switzerland. Photos by R. Guarino (left) and J. Dengler
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