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We report on the activities of the European Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) during the last year, namely the 8th European Dry Grassland Meeting in Uman', Ukraine in June 2011, the 3rd EDGG Research Expedition in Bulgaria in August 2011, the 4th EDGG Research Expedition in Sicily in April 2012, as well as the completed and forthcoming EDGG-coordinated special features in international journals. Then we provide a brief bibliometrical analysis of the Dry Grassland Special Features in Tuexenia since 2005. The 32 contributions of the years 2005–2011 constituted approx. 17% of the overall content of Tuexenia in this period. Including this 7th Dry Grassland Special Feature, sixty-one authors from 12 countries have contributed to these Special Features, guest-edited by yearly changing teams from a total of 16 guest editors. In the years with statistically reliable data, contributions in the Dry Grassland Special Features have been cited approximately four times as much as regular Tuexenia contributions. It is likely that this fact together with the internationality of the Special Features has contributed to the final inclusion of the journal in the Web of Science in 2011. Finally, we introduce the four research articles of this 7th Dry Grassland Special Feature. Two of them are focusing on vegetation change and restoration issues of cryptogam-rich sand dunes in the Netherlands and calcareous grasslands in Bavaria (Germany), respectively. The others, dealing with siliceous grasslands in Hesse (central Germany) and the results of EDGG Research Expedition 2009 to Transylvania (Romania), focus on syntaxonomy.
Die Arbeitsgruppe Trockenrasen wurde 2004 mit dem Ziel gegründet, mittelfristig die Bände der Trockenrasen und nahe stehender Vegetationstypen innerhalb der „Synopsis der Pflanzengesellschaften Deutschlands“ zu verfassen. Dazu soll zunächst eine umfassende TURBOVEG-Datenbank mit Vegetationsaufnahmen der Klassen Koelerio-Corynephoretea, Festuco-Brometea, Violetea calaminariae, Elyno-Seslerietea und Trifolio-Geranietea sanguinei aus Deutschland erstellt werden. Anschließend ist die ergebnisoffene syntaxonomische Neubearbeitung dieser Gesellschaftsgruppe nach einer einheitlichen Methodik geplant. Personen, die an der Arbeitsgruppe mitwirken oder ihr Daten zur Verfügung stellen wollen, sind herzlich willkommen. Außerdem veranstaltet die Arbeitsgruppe eine jährliche Tagung zu wechselnden Themen. Die erste im September 2004 in Lüneburg stand unter dem Motto „Trockenrasen als Biodiversitätshotspots“. Fünf der damaligen Beiträge werden in diesem Band publiziert.
Classification of higher level vegetation units (orders and alliances) based on numerical methods often yields different results than traditional plant community classification concepts. We performed a numerical cluster analysis of phytosociological relevés from the class Festuco-Brometea in Slovakia with the aim of identifying areas of overlap between the two classification approaches. The research was carried out using a database of approximately 1500 phytosociological relevés sampled in the period between 1927 and 2004. The outputs of the numerical classification form six clusters. Diagnostic taxa of individual clusters were determined using species constancy and fidelity. The cluster analysis enabled us to differentiate the alliances Seslerio-Festucion pallentis, Diantho lumnitzeri-Seslerion albicantis, Festucion valesiacae, Cirsio-Brachypodion pinnati and Asplenio septentrionalis-Festucion pallentis (inch Festucenion pseudodalmaticae). However, it did not permit the differentiation of the alliances Koelerio-Phleion phleoidis and Bromion erecti. It also did not allow us to differentiate the orders Brometalia erecti and Festucetalia valesiacae. The reason for this may be the peripheral occurrence of plant communities of Brometalia erecti in Slovakia.