Invitation to contribute to the vegetation-plot databases of EDGG

Abstract

We are pleased to present the new issue of the EDGG Bulletin, which comes with several important official announcements, such as the third call for the 14 th Eurasian Grassland Conference, to be held in Latvia and Western Lithuania, with extended registration deadlines. We also include a report about the GrassPlot database, with an invitation to join its Consortium, as well as short reports and invitations to join other EDGG-affiliated vegetation-plot databases. Last but not least, this issue also contains a call for nominations for the elections to the EDGG Executive Committee 2017-2019, with deadline on 15 May 2017. We encourage all of you to participate actively in this election, and to consider nominating yourselves or others as candidates for the election .This issue also includes a report on the 9 th EDGG Field Workshop in Serbia, and two forum papers dealing with different conservation aspects of Ukrainian steppes.We encourage all of you again to send us your grassland-related papers to be included in the section devoted to recent publications of our members. And finally, we would like to take the opportunity again to emphasize that the Bulletin welcomes submissions of scientific articles (in the form of Research papers, Forum papers, Reviews or Reports).We hope that reading the Bulletin will inspire you to new ideas and discoveries that, in turn, will find their place on the pages of future issues.