2018: 15^th Grassland Conference: Cooperating for grasslands: from habitat interpretation to conservation measures (Italy)

• Keynote lecture – Dr. Prof. Jürgen Dengler: EDGG Field Workshops and the GrassPlot database: new opportunities to understand scale-dependent biodiversity patterns in Palaearctic grasslands
• Borodulina, V. and Cherednichenko, C. Biodiversity of herbaceous vegetation in the transition area of Polistovsky Reserve, NW Russia. (poster)
• Březina, S., Záboj, H.,  Šturma, JA, Čejková,  A., Clive, H. Monitoring the condition of montane meadows in the Krkonoše Mts against a pre-defined target status (poster)
• Buholzer, S., Indermaur, A., Bühler, C., Frei, M. Key for determining the plant community types of the Swiss agricultural landscape (talk)
• Carli, E., Giarrizzo, E., Burrascano, S., Alós Ortí, M., Del Vico, E., Di Marzio, P., Facioni, L., Giancola, C., Mollo, B., Paura, B., Salerno, G., Zavattero, L., Blasi C. Using vegetation dynamics to face the challenge of the conservation status assessment in semi-natural habitats (talk)
• Labadessa, R., Valkó, O., Deák, B. Early successional grassland community dynamics in a restored landfill in SE Italy (poster)
• Luka. V., Alžběta, Č., Březina, S., Svobodová, A., Janata, T.  Suitability of agricultural management of meadows in the SCI Krkonoše, the Czech Republic (talk)
• Rove, I. Diversity of humid dunes slacks (2190) in Latvia (poster)
• Napoleone, F., Giarrizzo, E., Argenti, G., Blasi, C., Burrascano, S. Plant diversity and functions in semi-natural grasslands under different management intensities (talk)
• QIAO, Xian-Guo, GUO Ke, ZHAO Li-Qing, LIU Chang-Cheng, ZHAO Hai-Wei, HOU Dong-Jie, and GAO Chen-Guang. Distribution, community characteristics, and classification of the Stipa klemenzii steppe (poster)

2017: 14^th Eurasian Grassland Conference: Semi-natural grasslands across borders (Latvia and Lithuania)

• Keynote lecture:  In Hands of Farmers and Society: Semi-Natural Grasslands in the Boreal Region (Irina Herzon & Guy Beaufoy)
• ALL-EMA - Monitoring farmland biodiversity in grassland and other habitats of the Swiss agricultural landscapes (Gabriela Hofer, Serge Buholzer, Klaus Ecker, Christian Ginzler, Alex Indermaur, Eliane Meier, Susanne Riedel, Thomas Walter, Jonas Winizki, Felix Herzog) (talk)
• Biodiversity of the chalk grasslands of eastern Ukraine and the problems of its conservation (N. Polchaninova, G. Savchenko, V. Ronkin, L. Borovyk, V. Kletenkin, S. Limanskij) (talk)
• Changing of assembly rules during secondary succession: are there trends? (Aniko Csecserits, Melinda Halassy, Barbara Lhotsky, Tamas Redei, Zoltan Botta-Dukat) (talk)
• Do rare herbs have large seeds? The seed size – distribution range trade-off hypothesis (Judit Sonkoly, Balázs Deák, Orsolya Valkó, Attila Molnár V., Béla Tóthmérész, Péter Török) (talk)
• Ecological theories provide strong support to grassland recovery (Péter Török, Aveliina Helm) (talk)
• Graduated intensity of grassland management in Lower Austria – A case study of Puchberg am Schneeberg (Harald Rötzer, Barbara Steurer, Gerald Biedermann) (talk)
• Grasshopper and ground beetle fauna of calcareous grasslands in Abava River valley (Rūta Rozenfelde, Laura Reimane, Voldemārs Spuņģis) (talk)
• Grassland habitats of European importance in Ukraine: identification and inventory (Anna Kuzemko) (talk)
• GrassPlot database: A collaborative initiative within the EDGG framework (Jürgen Dengler, Idoia Biurrun, Timo Conradi, Iwona Dembicz, Riccardo Guarino, Alireza Naqinezhad, Viktoria Wagner, the GrassPlot Consortium, Monika Janišová) (talk)
• Grazing abandonment results in decline of zoochoric species – an evidence from dark diversity analysis in Central European grasslands (Monika Janišová, Silvia Bittnerová, Jozef Suja, Karol Ujházy, Eva Uhliarová, Philipp Sengl, Martin Magnes) (talk)
• Influence of different management treatments on functional diversity in the semi-natural grassland communities (Silvia Bittnerová, Jürgen Dengler, Dobromil Galvánek, Eva Uhliarová, Karol Ujházy, Mariana Ujhįzyová, Ingrid Turisová, Monika Janišová) (talk)
• Long-term changes in species richness of flies (Diptera, Brachycera) in grassland communities of Engure Nature Park, Latvia (Melecis V., Karpa A., Rūsiņa S., Gavrilova Ģ., Vilks K.) (talk)
• Mountain grasslands in central Greece (Pinelopi Delipetrou, Maria Sarika) (talk)
• ‘Our Molinia meadows were walking away’, Hydrological research used in Flemish grassland restoration project (Bram Cannaerts) (talk)
• Trends in permanent grassland cover in Latvia in the period from 2007 to 2016 (Pēteris Lakovskis, Solvita Rūsiņa) (talk)
• Ecological differentiation of dry grassland vegetation communities within the Steppe zone of Central Russian Upland (Ukrainian part) (Olga Chusova) (poster)
  History of semi-natural grassland management in Latvia (Lauma Gustiņa, Solvita Rūsiņa) (poster)
• Invasive grassland species Elaeagnus angustifolia on the northern and western boundaries in Ukraine (Kateryna Norenko) (poster)
• Sandy steppes of northeastern Ukraine as a prospective area of the European Emerald Network (N. Polchaninova, E. Karolinskiy, O. Filatova, M. Filatov) (poster)
• Testing of different grassland restoration approaches in LIFE GRASSSERVICE project (Dana Prižavoite, Baiba Strazdiņa, Edgars Bojārs) (poster)
• Sigma-syntaxa of the dry grassland vegetation in the Dnister River Canyon (Y. Rozenblit, Y. Didukh) (poster)
• EU natural and semi-natural grassland formations diversity, distribution and future prospects in Lithuania (Valerijus Rašomavičius, Domas Uogintas)  (poster)

2016: 13^th Eurasian Grassland Conference: Management and Conservation of Semi-natural Grasslands: from theory to practice (Romaina)

•  Keynote lecture - Joern Fischer    "Integration by Place, Case and Process Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science in Transylvania (Romania)"
• Keynote lecture - Rakosy & Craioveanu    "Origins, evolution, management and conservation of semi - natural grasslands in Transylvania" (keynote talk)
• Andrei Marin    "Environmental Policy Processes: lessons from pasture management in Norway and Mongolia" (talk)
•  Aniko Csecserits    "What is the effect of a perennial invasive species (Asclepias syriaca) on the regeneration of sandy grassland?" (talk)
• Anna Kuzemko    "Changes of meadow vegetation of the Forest and Forest - Steppe zones of Ukraine in the second half of the 20th - beginning of the 21st century" (talk)
•  Balazs Deak    "Effects of local environmental factors on the species composition of loess grassland fragments - A case study on isolated kurgans" (talk)
•  Csaba Tölgyesi    "Hydrologic fluctuations trigger structural changes in steppe – wetland ecotones but have no effect on ecotone position" (talk)
•  Dragos Luntraru    "Identifying and monitoring high nature value grasslands using an indicator plant approach" (talk)
•  Evelyn Rusdea    "Sustainable management of semi-natural grassland – from interdisciplinary research to participatory implementation - An example from the Apuseni Mountains" (talk)
•  Judit Sonkoly    "A new aspect of grassland vegetation dynamics: The presence of cyanobacterium colonies can affect establishment success of plants" (talk)
•  Kinga Ollerer    " Traditional vs. present management system of semi-natural grasslands from Southern Transylvania, Romania –a conservation perspective" (talk)
•  Minodora Manu    "Soil mite communities from heavy metal polluted grasslands - Transilvania, Romania" (talk)
•  Monika Janisova    "Role of traditional ecological knowledge in conservation of Carpathian grasslands"(talk)
•  Orsolya Valko    "Supporting biodiversity by prescribed burning in alkaline grasslands–Amult" (talk)
•   Roman Hamersky    "Restoration of Stipa spp. grasslands in Lounské Středohoří (southern part of České středohoří Mts.)/CZ" (talk)
•  Scocco et al.    "Increase of drought stress negatively affects the sustainability of extensive sheep farming in sub-Mediterranean climate" (talk)
•  Solvita Rusina    "National conservation and management programme for grassland habitats of EU importance in Latvia" (talk)
• Agnes Balazsi   "Do public institutions on nature conservation and agriculture contribute to the conservation of species-rich hay meadows?" (poster)
•  Agnes Horwath   "Segetal vegetation in the Ciuc Basin neighboring Miercurea-Ciuc (Eastern Carparthians)" (poster)
•  Anna Kovendi-Jako   "Thousand-seed-weight and germination ability of native species used in grassland restoration in Hungary" (poster)
•  David Nagy   "Effects of prescribed burning on arthropods" (poster)
•  Domas Uogintas   "The interaction between mesic and steppic grasslands on the boundary of temperate and boreal zones" (poster)
•  Dragana Cavlovic   "Simulating the species occurrence in Serbian grasslands of protected areas" (poster)
•  Eugen Goerzen   "Impact of shrub encroachment on species and functional diversity in dry basiphilous grasslands in Transylvania" (poster)
•  Gabor Szabo   "Assessing spatial heterogeneity of biomass production in Hungarian grasslands" (poster)
•  Jan Zarzycki   "Effect of topography and land use in the past on mountain grassland vegetation" (poster)
•  Martin Magnes   "Grassland restoration: Best practice of sod transplanting by considering spontaneous colonization pattern" (poster)
•  Melinda Halassy   "Re-naturalization of an industrial area: Restoring dry sandy grassland - open oak forest steppe" (poster)
•  Olga Chusova   "The Helianthemo-Thymetea class communities within the Central Russian Upland (Ukrainian part)" (poster)
•  Paola Scocco   "Environmental education about grassland biodiversity, pasture management and research social utility" (poster)
•  Philipp Sengl   "Naturalness indicator values as a tool for estimating success in grassland restoration" (poster)
•  Reka Kiss   "Seed banks of Central-European grasslands (overview)" (poster)
•  Valentina Borodulina   "Herb vegetation diversity and meadow flora under protection regime (based on the study of Central-Forest and Polistovsky nature reserves)" (poster)
•  Zita Zimmermann   "Relationship between fine-scale functional and coenological patterns in grasslands in Hungary" (poster)

 

2008: 5th European Dry Grassland Meeting: Dry grasslands in a changing environment (Germany)

• Large-scale classification of dry grasslands and related communities: approaches, problems, solutions, and firstresults by Jürgen Dengler (pdf file)
• Expansion of Rosa rugosa in Coastal Dunes  by Maike Isermann (pdf file)
• Long-term effects of the abandonment of grazing on steppe-like grasslands in Romania by Eszter Ruprecht, Márton Enyedi, Mónika Deák (pdf file)
• Vegetation Dynamics  of Abandoned Calcareous Grasslands  on River Terrace Slopes with Different Aspect by Solvita Rusina (pdf file)
• Erprobung unterschiedlicher Pflegemaßnahmen zur Reduktion des Land-Reitgrases (Calamagrostis epigejos) auf Sandtrockenrasen in Norddeutschland by Oliver Schuhmacher & Jürgen Dengler (pdf file)