Schedule

Friday, 22nd May

  16:00-18:00 Registration (Green School)
  18:00-20:00 Informal meet-up with Weck, Worscht und Woi (Green School and Botanic Garden)

 

Satureday, 23rd May - Lecture hall "Muschel"

  09:00-09:25 Welcome address  
  09:25-10:10 Invited talk Joachim W. Kadereit
      Biogeography of Rhine Gorge Orophytes
  10:10-10:30 Regular talk Anna Kuzemko, Dmytro Dubyna, Tatiana Dziuba, Ivan Moysiyenko, Yulia Vasheniak, Maryna Zakharova 
      Syntaxonomy of the sandy and rocky grasslands of Ukraine: preliminary results of large-scale analysis
  10:30-11:00 Coffee break  
  11:00-11:20 Regular talks Olga Demina, Pavel Dmitriev
      Classification of the psammophytic vegetation of the Don River Basin
  11:20-11:40   Oleksii Kovalenko
      Dry grasslands of  the National nature park “Pyryatynsky” (Ukraine): syntaxonomy, florotypology and rare plant species
  11:40-12:00   Eleonora Giarrizzo, Sabina Burrascano, Laura Facioni, Laura Zavattero, Carlo Blasi
      Causes and outcomes of change in species composition of the Apennine semi-natural grasslands in the last fifty years
  12:00-12:20   Emanuela Carli, Piera Di Marzio, Carmen Giancola, Attilio Di Giustino, Bruno Paura, Giovanni Salerno, Agnese Tilia, Carlo Blasi
      Good practices of management of 6210(*) dry grasslands in Molise (Central Italy)
  12:20-12:40   Jürgen Dengler, Iva Apostolova, Thomas Becker, Idoia Biurrun, Steffen Boch, Iwona Dembicz, Christian Dolnik, Nikolai Ermakov, Monika Janišová, Itziar García-Mijangos, Riccardo Guarino, Anna Kuzemko, Swantje Löbel, Hristo Pedashenko, Mariya Polyakova, Eszter Ruprecht & the participants of the EDGG Research Expeditions
      Diversity patterns in Palaearctic dry grassland vegetation – commonalities and differences across large biogeographic gradients derived from the data of the EDGG Research Expeditions
  12:40-14:00 Lunch break Mensa  
  14:00-14:20 Regular talks Balázs Deák, Béla Tóthmérész, Orsolya Valkó, Barbara Sudnik-Wójcikowska, Tatyana M. Bragina, Ivan Moysiyenko, Iva Apostolova, Nikolay Bykov, Iwona Dembicz, Péter Török
      Cultural monuments and nature conservation: The role of kurgans in maintaining steppe vegetation
  14:20-14:40   Saifi Merdas, Mohamed Tahar Hanafi, Bachir Sakaa, Toufik Mostefaoui, Yacine Kouba, Salemkour Nora, Ahmed Menad
      The impact of livestock grazing on plant species composition and diversity in arid steppe of Algeria
  14:40-15:00   Mohammad Jankju, Zakieh Ghasemi Mayvan, Mansoor Mesdaghi
      Effect of summertime burning and livestock grazing on plant species composition and diversity, in a dry grassland in Quchan, Iran
  15:00-15:20   Mélanie Harzé, Arnaud Monty, Grégory Mahy
      Do large scale restoration projects reduce within-species trait variability? A calcareous grasslands case study
  15:20-16:00 Coffee break  
  16:00-16:20 Regular talks Pamela Hafner, Holger Rößling
      EU-LIFE project “Sandy Grasslands”
  16:20-16:40   Orsolya Valkó, Balázs Deák, Béla Tóthmérész, Péter Török, Sándor Konyhás, Zsolt Végvári
      Wildfires as drivers of lekking distribution of Great Bustard (Otis tarda) – Implications for nature conservation
  16:40-18:30 Poster session 1  

 

Sunday, 24th May - Lecture hall "Muschel"

  09:30-10:15 Invited talk Martin Diekmann
      Population biology and community ecology of grasslands
  10:15-10:35 Regular talk Monika Janišová
      Linking biosystematic, ecological and population-biological approaches in a study of Tephroseris longifolia agg.
  10:35-11:00 Coffee break  
  11:00-11:20 Regular talks Catherine Anne Linn, Eva Maria Griebeler
      Habitat preference of German Mantis religiosa populations (Mantodea) and potential conservation measures
  11:20-11:40   Marina B. Fardeeva, Tatiana Rogova
      Effect of grazing on the population structure of Adonis vernalis L. in the basin of the Middle Volga
  11:40-12:00   Nina Šajna, Jelka Šuštar-Vozlič, Mitja Kaligarič
      Population biology of an in situ Pleistocene survivor
  12:00-12:20   Jaime Kigel
      Summer Dormancy in Mediterranean perennial grasses
  12:20-12:40   Katalin Tóth, Péter Török, Béla Tóthmérész, András Kelemen, Tamás Miglécz, Edina Simon, Balázs Lukács, Orsolya Valkó
      The role of seed banks in sustaining alkali grassland biodiversity
  12:40-14:00 Lunch break  
  14:00-14:20 Regular talks Oliver Kienberg, Thomas Becker
      Habitat specific population dynamics and reintroduction success in the threatened steppe-like grassland plant Astragalus exscapus
  14:20-14:40   Lisa Thill, Oliver Kienberg, Thomas Becker
      Compensating extinction by reintroducing Scorzonera purpurea into steppe grasslands of Central Germany
  14:40-15:00   Tamás Miglécz, Orsolya Valkó, Balázs Deák, András Kelemen, Péter Török, Donkó Ádám, Dóra Drexler, Béla Tóthmérész
      Sowing dry grassland species by cover crop seed mixtures in Hungarian vineyards
  15:00-15:20   Michael Jeschke, Dasom Han, Alexander Konrath, Jessica Mildenberger, Julia Termeer
      How do calcareous grassland cryptogams affect the germination of vascular plant seeds?
  15:20-16:00 Coffee break  
  16:00-17:30 Poster session 2 with Poster award
  17:30-19:00 EDGG General Assembly ("Muschel")
  19:00-22:00 Grassland Party (Green School/Botanic Garden)

 

Monday, 25th May

  10:30-12:00 Botanic Garden excursion
  12:00-14:00 Lunch break  
  14:00-19:00 Mainz Sand excursion (departure and arrival: bus stop "Colonel-Kleinmann-Weg" near "Muschel")
  Evening Town visit  

 

Tuesday, 26th May

  08:00-18:00 Post-conference trip 1 to Rhine-Hesse (with Grassland Pick nick)

 

Wednesday, 27th May

  08:00-18:00 Post-conference trip 2 to the Middle Rhine Valley