The origins of European Heathland Network can be traced back to a meeting of heathland specialists sponsored by the French and British Ecological Societies held at the Field Station of the University of Rennes at Paim-pont in Brittany in July 1979. This meeting proved so successful that it led to the first wholly European meeting in Aberdeen and the founding of a group by Charles Gimingham, Jacques de Smidt, Bernard Clement and Nils Malmer. Since that meeting there have been regular meetings every 2-4 years in various countries.
The next meeting (International Heathland Workshop 2009) will be held in Cornwall, Saturday 12th - Friday 18th September 2009. Delegates will be based all week at the Combined University of Cornwall (CUC), Glasney Park, Tremough Campus, Fal-mouth, Cornwall. There will be four days of site visits to include Bodmin Moor, Goss Moor, The Lizard and the Penwith Moors plus two days of delegate presentations, workshops and discussions.
The first attracctive and informative newsletter have been sent out in March 1, 2009. To subscribe to the newsletter, or to submit news, information, or any other heathland matters for the next newsletter (due in October 2009) please e-mail to john.day@footprint-ecology.co.uk Information will be regularly updated at www.naturalengland.org.uk/heathlands

Recently, a meta-database on relevé databases from European vegetation has been launched on the web by Florian Jansen on behalf of the German Working Group on Vegetation Databases. It is freely available to everybody at http://geobot.botanik.uni-greifswald.de/portal/vegbank.
This meta-database aims at making basic information on existing relevé databases available, such as scope and status of the database, included syntaxa and geographic coverage, number and sources of the included relevés and available header data. By providing these kinds of information, the keepers of the meta-database want to facilitate data exchange among different projects and help to avoid wasting of time on the double digitization of a particular dataset.
Thus, you are invited to enter some basic facts about the databases you are responsible for, irrespective whether these are small private databases with several hundreds of relevés or comprehensive national or even supra-national databases with tens of thousands of relevés. Including your information in the list, will cost you only several minutes, but the entries of the meta-database together can contribute a lot to a more efficient use of vegetation databases throughout Europe.
Presently, the meta-database already lists 14 database with nearly 300,000 relevés, including the database of the Working Group on Dry Grasslands in the Nordic and Baltic Region, a subgroup of EDGG.

A report The European Butterfly Indicator for Grassland Species: 1990:2007 has been published by De Vlinderstichting (Dutch Butterfly Conservation) and Butterfly Conservation Europe and is based on data from fourteen national Butterfly Monitoring Schemes. The report can be downloaded from www.bc-europe.org.

Grassland ecosystems hold an important part of Europe's biodiversity. They offer ideal conditions for a vast diversity of habitats and species, are the source of a wide range of public goods and services, and also act as carbon 'sinks'. Changes in agricultural practices and land use pressures mean that grasslands are disappearing at an alarming rate. This brochure highlights a selection of LIFE co-funded projects targeting grassland ecosystems within the Natura 2000 network. [download]


Home About us News Events Dry Grasslands Publications Useful links	EDGG News Sign Smolenice Grassland Declaration !!! (28.07.2010) Contribute to Bulletin 8 (6.07.2010) Bulletin 7 is now published! download here (6.07.2010) New subgroups have been established: Working Group on South-Eastern European Dry Grasslands and Working Group on Mediterranean Dry Grasslands (15.03.2010) Logo of EDGG (11.04.2009)	Other News The 7th conference of the Society for Ecological Restoration http://www.seravignon2010.org/ (9.02.2010) www.saxifraga.nl more than 50,000 pictures of European plants, animals and landscapes (10.01.2010) 23rd Conference-Expedition of Baltic Botanists (06.12.2009) Report European Butterfly Indicator for Grassland Species (24.02.2009) Freely available LIFE grassland brochure (16.01.2009)
	Logo of EDGG! The logo competition is decided. Clear winner is the logo from our member Dr. Anna Kuzemko from Uman', Ukraine. It received 10 votes (No.10 in picture below), while the logo proposals No. 1, 2, 5 and 8 each received one vote. I [top]
	Deadline for contributions to the Bulletin No.8. is 10.09.2010 You can contribute in various ways: • to present remarkable dry grassland type/site • to present new publications • to share the photos and experiences from meetings, excursions and conferences • to initiate the establishment of new regular section in Bulletin • to initiate the establishment of new working group • to address questions related to dry grasslands (to find co-researchers for projects, to ask for advice in management practices, classification opinion, etc.) • to provide advice or help to other members asking for advice or help related to dry grasslands Please, send your contributions to Monika: monika.janisova@savba.sk. [top]
	Other news European Heathland Network The origins of European Heathland Network can be traced back to a meeting of heathland specialists sponsored by the French and British Ecological Societies held at the Field Station of the University of Rennes at Paim-pont in Brittany in July 1979. This meeting proved so successful that it led to the first wholly European meeting in Aberdeen and the founding of a group by Charles Gimingham, Jacques de Smidt, Bernard Clement and Nils Malmer. Since that meeting there have been regular meetings every 2-4 years in various countries. The next meeting (International Heathland Workshop 2009) will be held in Cornwall, Saturday 12th - Friday 18th September 2009. Delegates will be based all week at the Combined University of Cornwall (CUC), Glasney Park, Tremough Campus, Fal-mouth, Cornwall. There will be four days of site visits to include Bodmin Moor, Goss Moor, The Lizard and the Penwith Moors plus two days of delegate presentations, workshops and discussions. The first attracctive and informative newsletter have been sent out in March 1, 2009. To subscribe to the newsletter, or to submit news, information, or any other heathland matters for the next newsletter (due in October 2009) please e-mail to john.day@footprint-ecology.co.uk Information will be regularly updated at www.naturalengland.org.uk/heathlands Meta-database on vegetation databases in Europe Recently, a meta-database on relevé databases from European vegetation has been launched on the web by Florian Jansen on behalf of the German Working Group on Vegetation Databases. It is freely available to everybody at http://geobot.botanik.uni-greifswald.de/portal/vegbank. This meta-database aims at making basic information on existing relevé databases available, such as scope and status of the database, included syntaxa and geographic coverage, number and sources of the included relevés and available header data. By providing these kinds of information, the keepers of the meta-database want to facilitate data exchange among different projects and help to avoid wasting of time on the double digitization of a particular dataset. Thus, you are invited to enter some basic facts about the databases you are responsible for, irrespective whether these are small private databases with several hundreds of relevés or comprehensive national or even supra-national databases with tens of thousands of relevés. Including your information in the list, will cost you only several minutes, but the entries of the meta-database together can contribute a lot to a more efficient use of vegetation databases throughout Europe. Presently, the meta-database already lists 14 database with nearly 300,000 relevés, including the database of the Working Group on Dry Grasslands in the Nordic and Baltic Region, a subgroup of EDGG. [top] *A report The European Butterfly Indicator for Grassland Species: 1990:2007* has been published by De Vlinderstichting (Dutch Butterfly Conservation) and Butterfly Conservation Europe and is based on data from fourteen national Butterfly Monitoring Schemes. The report can be downloaded from www.bc-europe.org. [top] Freely available LIFE grassland brochure of the EU LIFE and Europe's grasslands: Restoring a forgotten habitat 2008 - 56 pages Grassland ecosystems hold an important part of Europe's biodiversity. They offer ideal conditions for a vast diversity of habitats and species, are the source of a wide range of public goods and services, and also act as carbon 'sinks'. Changes in agricultural practices and land use pressures mean that grasslands are disappearing at an alarming rate. This brochure highlights a selection of LIFE co-funded projects targeting grassland ecosystems within the Natura 2000 network. [download] [top]
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