The Palaearctic steppes range from the Mediterranean basin towards China, forming one of
the largest continuous terrestrial biomes. The literature on steppe ecology and conservation …

The prevailing paradigm about the Quaternary ecological and evolutionary history of Central
European ecosystems is that they were repeatedly impoverished by regional extinctions of …

Grasslands are spontaneously occurring herbaceous vegetation types that are mostly
dominated by grasses or other graminoids and have usually> 10% herb-layer cover, while …

Palaearctic semi-natural grasslands are known to host an extraordinarily high plant diversity
(Kull & Zobel 1991; Hobohm 1998; Janišová et al. 2011; Michalcová et al. 2014). Some …

Aims Understanding fine‐grain diversity patterns across large spatial extents is fundamental
for macroecological research and biodiversity conservation. Using the GrassPlot database …

There are many ways to define 'grasslands', but the central component of almost all of them
is Gramineae (Poaceae) species and an upper limit of tree cover in the overstory (Gibson …

Aim Soil pH is considered an important driver of fine‐scale plant species richness in
terrestrial ecosystems. However, it is unclear to what extent this relationship is influenced by …

This paper presents the details of the EDGG sampling methodology and its underlying
rationales. The methodology has been applied during EDGG Research Expeditions and …

GrassPlot is a collaborative vegetation-plot database organised by the Eurasian Dry
Grassland Group (EDGG) and listed in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD …

The European steppes and their biota have been hypothesized to be either young remnants
of the Pleistocene steppe belt or, alternatively, to represent relicts of long-term persisting …