A special issue dedicated to the biodiversity and conservation of Eurasian grasslands has been published on behalf of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) in the journal Hacquetia. Hacquetia is an international journal of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences, which regularly publishes special issues in cooperation with the EDGG. I have been serving as editor-in-chief in these special issues since 2016.
The papers in this special issue cover a wide range of grassland ecosystems from mountain dry grasslands to lowland loess grasslands, feathergrass steppes and wet grasslands, and focus on the biodiversity values and conservation issues of Palaearctic grasslands. We believe that this compilation will contribute to a better understanding of the ecology of grasslands and support their more effective conservation.
Two papers of the special issue focus on the conservation values of ancient steppic burial mounds (kurgans). The paper of Balázs Deák introduces the Eurasian Kurgan Database which is a new citizen science tool for collecting and sharing data on these important sites (Deák et al. 2019). The paper of Csaba Tóth provides a complex analysis of the geomorphology, soil, flora and fauna of representative mounds in Hungary (Tóth et al. 2019). Anyway, the mounds play a central role in the special issue and they appear also on the cover page :)
The papers in this special issue cover a wide range of grassland ecosystems from mountain dry grasslands to lowland loess grasslands, feathergrass steppes and wet grasslands, and focus on the biodiversity values and conservation issues of Palaearctic grasslands. We believe that this compilation will contribute to a better understanding of the ecology of grasslands and support their more effective conservation.
Two papers of the special issue focus on the conservation values of ancient steppic burial mounds (kurgans). The paper of Balázs Deák introduces the Eurasian Kurgan Database which is a new citizen science tool for collecting and sharing data on these important sites (Deák et al. 2019). The paper of Csaba Tóth provides a complex analysis of the geomorphology, soil, flora and fauna of representative mounds in Hungary (Tóth et al. 2019). Anyway, the mounds play a central role in the special issue and they appear also on the cover page :)
You can read interesting papers about dry grasslands of the Upper Rhone Valley (Dengler et al. 2019a), grazing preferences of water buffaloes in wet grasslands (Tsiobani et al. 2019) and about the effect of wildfires on the steppic arthropod assemblages (Polchaninova et al. 2019). The special issue also includes a report on the activities of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (Dengler et al. 2019b) and an editorial paper (Valkó et al. 2019).
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| The cover photo of the special issue showing that in the intensively used agricultural landscapes, kurgans harbour the last remnants of the steppes. The kurgan on the picture is situated in the Plovdiv region of Bulgaria, and we found several interesting steppic plant on it, such as Goniolimon sp., Elymus elongatus and Ranunculus illyricus (photo by Balázs Deák). |
Hacquetia is an international journal indexed on Scopus. It is an attractive publication platform as it has an increasing Cite Score and all articles and colour illustrations are published free and open access. In the EDGG-edited special features we welcome submissions of both botanical and zoological papers related to the biodiversity values or conservation issues of Palaearctic grasslands. The next special issue is planned to be published in December 2020. The call for papers will be published soon.
The papers of the current special issue can be downloaded from the journal homepage.
Please find below the citations of the papers in the current special issue.
Valkó,
O., Labadessa, R., Palpurina, S., Burrascano, S., Ushimaru, A. &
Venn, S. (2019): Conservation and diversity of Palaearctic grasslands –
Editorial to the 5th EDGG special issue in Hacquetia. Hacquetia 18(2):
149-152.
Dengler, J., Widmer, S., Staubli, E., Babbi, M., Gehler, J., Hepenstrick, D., Bergamini, A., Billeter, R., Boch, S., Rohrer, S. & Dembicz, I. (2019a): Dry grasslands of the central valleys of the Alps from a European perspective: the example of Ausserberg (Valais, Switzerland). Hacquetia 18 (2): 161–183.
Dengler, J., Aleksanyan, A., Ambarlı, D., Biurrun, I., Dembicz, I., Kuzemko, A., Török, P., Venn, S. & Vrahnakis, M. (2019b): The Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) in 2018–2019. Hacquetia 18(2): 153-160.
Deák, B., Tóth, C., Bede, Á., Apostolova, I., Bragina, T.M., Báthori, F. & Bán, M. 2019: Eurasian Kurgan Database – a citizen science tool for conserving grasslands on historical sites. Hacquetia 18 (2): 185–193.
Tóth, Cs. A., Deák, B., Nyilas, I., Bertalan, L., Valkó, O. & Novák, T. 2019: Iron age burial mounds as refugia for steppe specialist plants and invertebrates – case study from the Zsolca mounds (NE Hungary). Hacquetia 18 (2): 195–206.
Tsiobani, E. T., Yiakoulaki, M. D. & Menexes, G. 2019: Seasonal variation in water buffaloes’ diet grazing in wet grasslands in Northern Greece. Hacquetia 18 (2): 207–218.
Polchaninova, N., Savchenko, G., Ronkin, V., Drogvalenko, A. & Putchkov, A. 2019: Summer fire in steppe habitats: long-term effects on vegetation and autumnal assemblages of cursorial arthropods. Hacquetia 18 (2): 219–237.
Dengler, J., Widmer, S., Staubli, E., Babbi, M., Gehler, J., Hepenstrick, D., Bergamini, A., Billeter, R., Boch, S., Rohrer, S. & Dembicz, I. (2019a): Dry grasslands of the central valleys of the Alps from a European perspective: the example of Ausserberg (Valais, Switzerland). Hacquetia 18 (2): 161–183.
Dengler, J., Aleksanyan, A., Ambarlı, D., Biurrun, I., Dembicz, I., Kuzemko, A., Török, P., Venn, S. & Vrahnakis, M. (2019b): The Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) in 2018–2019. Hacquetia 18(2): 153-160.
Deák, B., Tóth, C., Bede, Á., Apostolova, I., Bragina, T.M., Báthori, F. & Bán, M. 2019: Eurasian Kurgan Database – a citizen science tool for conserving grasslands on historical sites. Hacquetia 18 (2): 185–193.
Tóth, Cs. A., Deák, B., Nyilas, I., Bertalan, L., Valkó, O. & Novák, T. 2019: Iron age burial mounds as refugia for steppe specialist plants and invertebrates – case study from the Zsolca mounds (NE Hungary). Hacquetia 18 (2): 195–206.
Tsiobani, E. T., Yiakoulaki, M. D. & Menexes, G. 2019: Seasonal variation in water buffaloes’ diet grazing in wet grasslands in Northern Greece. Hacquetia 18 (2): 207–218.
Polchaninova, N., Savchenko, G., Ronkin, V., Drogvalenko, A. & Putchkov, A. 2019: Summer fire in steppe habitats: long-term effects on vegetation and autumnal assemblages of cursorial arthropods. Hacquetia 18 (2): 219–237.
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