“…Brullo, Giusso del Caldo, Siracusa, & Spampinato, ; Colasse & Delassus, ; Gamper, Filesi, Buffa, & Sburlino, ), using the Braun‐Blanquet approach (Dengler, Chytrý, & Ewald, ; Westhoff & van der Maarel, ), or on ecology, management and conservation strategies (e.g. Del Vecchio, Slaviero, Fantinato, & Buffa, ; Isermann, Koehler, & Mühl, ; Provoost et al., ). However, despite their evident diversity, no comparative studies, analysing the variability of coastal perennial grasslands across their European range have been carried out yet.…”