Presently, EDGG is organising five Special Issues/Special Features in international journals. There are two on grassland diversity, one in Biodiversity and Conservation, one in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. In the first journal, the submission deadline is already over, in the second the last of the invited papers can be submitted until end of this year. We assume that both Special Issues, covering a wide range of botanical and zoological studies will appear in 2013. Our third cooperation with a leading international journal is the preparation of a Virtual Special Feature of Applied Vegetation Science on “Towards a consistent classification of European grasslands”. “Virtual” means that the individual articles will be published independently after acceptance over a period of 2–3 years, and the final articles will be accompanied by a synthesis paper of the guest editors. Here also the invitation of contributions is already closed, and the first paper has been accepted. It will appear in the second half of 2013 together with a brief editorial.

The traditional Dry Grassland Special Feature for Tuexenia 33 (2013) focused on temperate dry grasslands is also making progress, with three of the invited papers already in review and the rest expected in the near future. In 2013, we will for the first time have a similar Special Issue in the Slovenian journal Hacquetia, focused on Mediterranean dry grasslands, where the invited papers can still be submitted until 28 February 2013. EDGG has recently reached agreements with the chief editors of both journals that guarantee the open-ended continuation of the EDGG-edited Dry Grassland Special Features on an annual basis in both journals. The idea is that our Special Features in Tuexenia take the botanical papers from the temperate and boreal zone, while our Special Features in Hacquetia take the zoological papers and the botanical papers from the sub-Mediterranean and Mediterranean zone. In both cases, this publication venue will be mainly open to contributions of the European Dry Grassland Meeting of the preceding year, but we additionally will allow a limited number of papers from the EDGG members in general. In the future, the team of guest editors in Tuexenia will be led by Thomas Becker (beckerth@uni-trier.de) as successor of Jürgen Dengler, who has coordinated these Special Features since their “invention” in 2005. As we have secured a continuous production of the EDGG Special Features in Tuexenia for the coming years, it will become standard that papers that are accepted but were finalised by the authors too late for a certain volume of Tuexenia are simply transferred to the subsequent volume. This will allow a more continuous production process in the future. We will try to arrange with the editors of Tuexenia that such papers then will be EDGG Special Issues/Special Features published online prior to print publication (“online first” as in many international journals). Finally, we also have decided to simplify the submission process to the Dry Grassland Special Features in Tuexenia and make it on a continuous basis. Authors who wish to publish there for the first or second time will still first have to pass the abstract screening once a year, approximately one month after the EDGM, where only papers with positively evaluated abstracts may be submitted. Authors who have already co-authored at least two papers (except editorials) in the Tuexenia Dry Grassland Special Features, can now submit their first- or senior-authored contributions at any time without pre-evaluation. Presently, there are 13 persons that qualify for this “fast lane” (see Galvanek et al. 2012), namely T. Becker, M. Beldean, J. Dengler, D. Dubravková, M. Janišová, M. Jeschke, K. Kiehl, E. Ruprecht, I. Škodová, A. Szabó, P.D. Turtureanu and E. Uhliarová, but we assume that this list will grow fast. If you are among those listed and you wish to submit a paper, just send it to the chair of the Tuexenia guest editors, Thomas Becker. You don’t need to wait for the annual abstract evaluation any more. While the Special Features in Hacquetia will start with a full issue in 2013, in the following years we assume that we will always fill approximately half of the autumn issue of that journal. As already indicated, the focus in Hacquetia will be zoological papers and papers on Mediterranean dry grasslands. Hacquetia is fairly new, an open-access journal (2012 is only volume 11). It has an attractive homepage at http://versita.metapress.com/ content/120766/, where you can find all articles since volume 6 (2007) for free download, including numerous relevant articles on fauna, flora, vegetation and conservation of dry grasslands. Hacquetia has been indexed in SCOPUS since 2009 and is likely also to be included in Web of Science in the near future. If you are interested in supporting the inclusion of Hacquetia in WoS, you can submit your proposal with your individual arguments why Hacquetia is worth coverage to the ISI r e c o m m e n d a t i o n p a g e : h t t p : / / i p - science.thomsonreuters.com/info/journalsubmission/ (note that they state on their homepage that multiple proposals would not help but the facts of the past have shown that actually they help very much; Thomson- Reuters is a highly commercial enterprise that is interested in providing products that meet the requirements of as many potential customers as possible).

Galvánek, D., Becker, T., Dengler, J. (2012): Biodiversity, syntaxonomy, and management – Editorial to the 7th Dry Grassland Special Feature(with a bibliometrical evaluation of the series). Tuexenia 32: 233–243.

2012: 9th European Dry Grassland Meeting: Dry grassland of Europe: grazing and ecosystem services (Prespa, Greece)

2011: 8th European Dry Grassland Meeting: Dry grassland of Europe: biodiversity, classification, conservation and management (Uman', Ukraine)

Galvánek, D., Becker, T., Dengler, J. (2012): Biodiversity, syntaxonomy, and management – Editorial to the 7th Dry Grassland Special Feature (with a bibliometrical evaluation of the series). – Tuexenia 32: 233–243. [pdf]

Ketner-Oostra, R., Aptroot, A., Jungerius, P.D., Sýkora, K.V. (2012): Vegetation succession and habitat restoration in Dutch lichen-rich inland drift sands. – Tuexenia 32: 245–268. [pdf]

Jeschke, M. (2012): Cryptogams in calcareous grassland restoration: perspectives for artificial vs. natural colonization. – Tuexenia 32: 269–279. [pdf]

Becker, T., Schmiege, C., Bergmeier, E., Dengler, J., Nowak, B. (2012): Nutrient-poor grasslands on siliceous soil in the lower Aar valley (Middle Hesse, Germany) – neglected vegetation types in the intersection range of four classes. – Tuexenia 32: 281–318 + 1 table. [pdf]

Dengler, J., Becker, T., Ruprecht, E., Szabó, A., Becker, U., Beldean, M., Bita-Nicolae, C., Dolnik, C., Goia, I., Peyrat, J., Sutcliffe, L.M.E., Turtureanu, P.D., Uğurlu, E. (2012): Festuco-Brometea communities of the Transylvanian Plateau (Romania) – a preliminary overview on syntaxonomy, ecology, and biodiversity. – Tuexenia 32: 319–359 + 2 tables. [pdf]

2010: 7th Succession, restoration and management of dry grasslands (Smolenice, Slovak Republic)

Janišová, M., Wellstein, C., Willner, W., Dengler, J. (2011): Succession, restoration, and management of dry grasslands – Special Feature with contributions from the 7th European Dry Grassland Meeting 2010 in Smolenice. Tuexenia 31: 227–234. [pdf]

Škodová, I., Devánová, K., Senko, D. (2011): Subxerophilous and mesophilous grasslands of the Biele Karpaty Mts. (White Carpathian Mts.) in Slovakia. Tuexenia 31: 235–269 + 6 tables. [pdf]

Willner, W. (2011): Unambiguous assignment of relevés to vegetation units: the example of the Festuco- Brometea and Trifolio-Geranietea sanguinei. Tuexenia 31: 271–282 + 1 table. [pdf] [table]

Petřík, P., Černý, T., Boublík, K. (2011): Impact of hoofed game and weather on the vegetation of endangered dry grasslands in the Křivoklátsko Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic). Tuexenia 31: 283–299. [pdf]

Wiezik, M., Wieziková, A., Svitok, M. (2011): Vegetation structure, ecological stability, and low-disturbance regime of abandoned dry grasslands support specific ant assemblages in Central Slovakia. Tuexenia 31: 301–315. [pdf]

This Special Feature is devoted to Succession, management and restoration of dry grasslands and was guestedited by Monika Janišová (Banská Bystrica, SK), Sándor Bartha (Vacratot, HU), Kathrin Kiehl (Osnabrück, DE), and Jürgen Dengler (Hamburg, DE). It contains nine regular articles plus the editorial and will appear in the August issue of the journal. This is the first EDGG Special Feature in a journal listed in the Web of Science. Plant Biosystems is published by the Italian Botanical Society and has an Impact Factor of 0.929.

Janišová, M., Bartha, S., Kiehl, K., Dengler, J. (in press): Advances in the conservation of dry grasslands – Introduction to contributions from the 7th European Dry Grassland Meeting. Plant Biosystems 145. DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2011.603895.

Sudnik-Wójcikowska, B., Moysiyenko, I., Zachwatowicz, M., Jablońska, E. (2011): The value and need for protection of kurgan flora in the anthropogenic landscape of steppe zone in Ukraine. Plant Biosystems 145. DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2011.601335.

Vassilev, K., Pedashenko, H., Nikolov, S. C., Apostolova, I., Dengler, J. (2011): Effect of land abandonment on the vegetation of upland semi-natural grasslands in the Western Balkan Mts., Bulgaria. Plant Biosystems 145. DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2011.601337.

Hegedüšová, K., Senko, D. (2011): Successional changes of dry grasslands in southwestern Slovakia after 46 years of abandonment. Plant Biosystems 145. DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2011.601605.

Kaligarič, M., Meister, M., Škornik, S., Šajna, N., Kramberger, B., Bolhàr-Nordenkampf, H. R. (2011): Grassland succession is mediated by umbelliferous colonizers showing allelopathic potential. Plant Biosystems 145. DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2011.601338.

Házi, J., Bartha, S., Szentes, S., Wichmann, B., Penksza, K. (2011): Seminatural grassland management by mowing of Calamagrostis epigejos in Hungary. Plant Biosystems 145.DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2011.601339.

Henkin Z, Seligman NG. 2011. The role of management on the rate of succession in restored Mediterranean grassland after fire. Plant Biosystems 145. DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2011.601334.

Csecserits, A., Czúcz, B., Halassy, M., Kröel-Dulay, G., Rédei, T., Szabó, R., Szitár, K., Török, K. (2011): Regeneration of sandy old-fields in the forest steppe region of Hungary. Plant Biosystems 145. DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2011.601340.

Deák, B., Valkó, O., Kelemen, A., Török, P., Miglécz, T., Ölvedi, T., Lengyel, S., Tóthmérész, B. (2011): Litter and graminoid biomass accumulation suppresses weedy forbs in grassland restoration. Plant Biosystems 145. DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2011.601336.

Madruga-Andreu, C., Plaixats, J., López-i-Gelats, F., Bartolomé, J. (2011): Medium-term success of revegetation methods for high-mountain grassland reclamation in the Montseny Plant Biosystems 145. DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2011.601341.

2009: 6th European Dry Grassland Meeting: Species interaction and distribution (Halle, Germany)

Jandt, U., Becker, T., Dengler, J., Janišová, M. (2010): Dry grasslands: species interactions and distribution – Editorial to the Special Feature with contributions from the 6th European Dry Grassland Meeting 2009 in Halle (Saale). – Tuexenia 30: 349-355, Göttingen. [pdf]

Dúbravková, D., Hegedüšová, K., Janišová, M., Škodová, I. (2010): New vegetation data of dry grasslands in the Western Carpathians and the northern Pannonian Basin. – Tuexenia 30: 357-374, Göttingen. [pdf]

Janišová, M., Uhliarová, E., Ružičková, H. (2010): Expert system-based classification of semi-natural grasslands in submontane and montane regions of central Slovakia. – Tuexenia 30: 375-422, Göttingen. [pdf]

Janišová, M., Uhliarová, E., Hlásny, T., Turisová, I. (2010): Vegetation-environment relationships in grassland communities of central Slovakia. – Tuexenia 30: 423-443, Göttingen. [pdf]

Jones, A., Akeroyd, J., Beldean, M., Turtureanu, D. (2010): Characterization and conservation of xeric grasslands in the Târnava Mare area of Transylvania (Romania). – Tuexenia 30: 445-456, Göttingen. [pdf]

Juśkiewicz-Swaczyna, B. (2010): Population structure of Pulsatilla patens in relation to the habitat quality. – Tuexenia 30: 475-466, Göttingen. [pdf]

Rusina, S., Kiehl, K. (2010): Long-term changes in species diversity in abandoned calcareous grasslands in Latvia. – Tuexenia 30: 467-486, Göttingen. [pdf]

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

Bohner, A., Habeler, H., Starlinger, F., Suanjak, M. (2009): Artenreiche montane Rasengesellschaften auf Lawinenbahnen des Nationalparks Gesäuse (Österreich). - Tuexenia 29: 97-120, Göttingen. [pdf]

Dolnik, C., Dengler, J., Jandt, U., Kiehl, K. (2009): Dry Grasslands in a Changing Environment - Special Feature with contributions from the 5^th Dry Grassland Meeting 2008 in Kiel. - Tuexenia 29: 331-337, Göttingen.[pdf]

Dolnik, C. (2009): Internationale Trockenrasentagung “Dry grasslands in a changing environment – Trockenrasen im Wandel” vom 26.−28. August 2008 in Kiel. – Kiel. Not. Pflanzenkd. 36: 130–131, Kiel. [pdf]

Juśkiewicz-Swaczyna, B. (2009): The psammophilous grassland community Corniculario aculeatae-Corynephoretum canescentis in the Masurian Lake District (NE Poland). - Tuexenia 29: 391-408, Göttingen. [pdf]

Kuzemko, A. (2009): Dry grasslands on sandy soils in the forest and forest-steppe zones of the plains part of Ukraine: present state of syntaxonomy. - Tuexenia 29: 369-390, 1 table, Göttingen. [pdf]

Laime, B., Tjarve, D. (2009): Grey dune plant communities (Koelerio-Corynephoretea) on the Baltic coast in Latvia. - Tuexenia 29: 409-435, 2 tables, Göttingen. [pdf]

Rickert, B.-H., Drews, H. (2009): Ein erster Schritt zu einem Populationsmanagement für Pulsatilla pratensis (L.) Mill in Schleswig-Holstein? – Kiel. Not. Pflanzenkd. 36: 37–41, Kiel. [pdf]

Ruprecht, E., Szabó, A., Enyedi, M. Z., Dengler, J. (2009): Steppe-like grasslands in Transylvania (Romania): characterisation and influence of management on species diversity and composition. - Tuexenia 29: 353-368, 1 table, Göttingen. [pdf]

Schrautzer, J., Jansen, D., Breuer, M., Nelle, O. (2009): Succession and management of calcareous dry grasslands in the Northern Franconian Jura, Germany. - Tuexenia 29: 339-351, 1 table, Göttingen. [pdf]

2005: 2nd European Dry Grassland Meeting: Observation scales in dry grasslands (Münster, Germany)

Bültmann H., Hasse T., DörsingM., Jandt U., Becker T., Dengler J. (2006): Trockenrasen auf unter– schiedlichen Betrachtungsebenen – Zweite Jahres– tagung der AG Trockenrasen vom 26.–28.08.05 in Münster. Tuexenia 26: 389–390, Göttingen.[pdf]

Michálková D. & Šibík J. (2006): A numerical approach to the syntaxonomy of plant communities of the class Festuco-Brometea in Slovakia. Tuexenia 26: 145–158, Göttingen. [pdf]

Dengler J., Löbel S. & Boch S. (2006): Dry grassland communities of shallow, skeletal soils (Sedo-Scleranthetenea) in northern Europe Tuexenia 26: 159–190, Göttingen. [pdf]

Evers C. (2006): Ephemerenfluren (Sedo-Scleranthetalia) im nördlichen Harzvorland. Tuexenia 26: 191–201, Göttingen. [pdf]

Schmitt B. & Fartmann T. (2006): Die Heidenelken-reichen Silikat-Magerrasen der Medebacher Bucht (Südwestfalen/Nordhessen): Ökologie, Syntaxonomie und Management. Tuexenia 26: 203–221, Göttingen. [pdf]

Jeschke M. & Kiehl K. (2006): Auswirukung von Renaturierungs- und Pflegemaßnahmen auf die Artenzusammensetzung und Artendiversität von Gefäßpflanzen und Kryptogamen in neu angelegten Kalkmagerrasen. Tuexenia 26: 223–242, Göttingen. [pdf]

2004: 1st European Dry Grassland Meeting: Dry grasslands as biodiversity hotspots (Lüneburg, Germany)

Contributions in Kieler Notizen zur Pflanzenkunde in Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg 32 (2004) [pdf]

Dengler J. & Jandt U. (2005): Trockenrasen als Biodiversitätshotspots - Erste Jahrestagung der AG Trockenrasen mit einem Worskhop zur Syntaxonomie der Trockenrasen Deutschlands. Tuexenia 25: 375–378, Göttingen. [pdf]

Hobohm C. (2005): Was sind Biodiversity Hotspots - global, regional, lokal? Tuexenia 25: 375–378, Göttingen. [pdf]

Dengler J. (2005): Zwischen Estland und Portugal - Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der Phytodiversitätsmuster europäischer Trockenrasen . Tuexenia 25: 387–405, Göttingen. [pdf]

Hasse T. (2005): Charakterisierung der Sukzessionsstadien im Spergulo-Corynephoretum (Silbergrasfluren) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Flechten. Tuexenia 25: 407–424, Göttingen. [pdf]

Jeschke M. & Kiehl K. (2005): Auswirkung von Renaturierungs- und Pflegemaßnahmen auf die Artenzusammensetzung und Artendiversität von Gefäßpflanzen und Kryptogamen in neu angelegten Kalkmagerrasen. Tuexenia 25: 445–461, Göttingen. [pdf]