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The Târnava Mare EU Site of Community Interest (SCI), Romania, is a landscape of high grassland biodiversity, which includes small areas of xeric grasslands. These forest-steppe associations have some unique habitat species compositions and contain small populations of EU Habitats Directive and Romanian red-listed plant species. The grasslands are in need of a conservation strategy that will fully describe their legal conservation status, identify threats and deliver their management requirements. The conservation programme is discussed with regard to a newly discovered and exceptional stand of xeric grassland allied to ‘stony steppe’ formations, which is presented as an example of the factors involved in the protection of such sites.
