Ski runs as an alternative habitat for threatened grassland plant species in Japan

One of the primary outcomes of the first five annual meetings of the German Arbeitsgruppe Trockenrasen (2004Trockenrasen ( -2008) ) was the need for internationalization, i.e. to attract scientists together with their knowledge and experience from abroad, at least from EU. Year after year this need became imperative and in the foundation of the European Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) in Kiel (August 2008) the idea for a European conference on dry grasslands was born. The first such conference, namely the 6th European Dry Grassland Meeting (EDGM), took place in 2009 in Halle (Germany). After Halle, six more annual EDGMs (in Slovakia, Ukraine, Greece, Poland, Russ ia, Germany) took place in consecutive years, upgrading the name of EDGG at the European level, and increasing the volume of its membership. In the summer of 2015, the EDGG boosted its internationalization by changing its name to Eurasian Dry Grassland Group and renamed its annual meeting as Eurasian Grassland Conference (EGC). Throughout the years, and in accordance with EDGG bylaws, the EDGM/EGC remains the main communication tool and one of the core activities of the EDGG. This article was written for the celebration of the tenth anniversary of EDGM/EGC, after its first organization in 2009. It aims to bring into light the communication power that the EGC has, by presenting an overview of past meetings and conferences that served as the main link between EDGG members. The relevant dry g rassland meetings before 2009 are briefly presented in the first section of this article; the second section presents the seven E DGMs, and the third section presents an overview of the three EGCs that followed up to now.