e-FLORA-sys is a free web application intended for ecologists and agronomists studying permanent grasslands. E-Flora-sys  : - give ecological and agronomical characteristics of grassland species (western Europe flora), - alows to record, view and edit floristic releves, and to manage set of releves - and calculate indexes in order to production an ecological and agronomical interpretation e-FLORA-sys was created by the french laboratoire Agronomie et Environnement Nancy-Colmar (Nancy University – INRA)

At 24 May 2013 : 22269 species and 5001 relevés in the database

Contact : Sylvain PLANTUREUX et Bernard AMIAUD

The role of grasslands in a green future: threats and perspectives in less favoured areas. 17th EGF symposium 23-26 june 2013, Akureyri, Iceland see more http://www.egf2013.is/

Visit the website of the european research project evaluating the benefits of diversity in grasslands and grassland based ruminant systems: http://www.multisward.eu/multisward_eng/

The next European Grassland Federation EGF congress will take place in june 3-7 in Lublin (Poland) http://www.egf2012.pl/

Poster presentation (session 4.1 August 1st)and software demonstration of eFLORAsys during EGF meeting at Kiel (D) between August 30th and September 2nd .. please contact Prof Sylvain PLANTUREUX during the congress

The next congress of the EGF (European Grassland Federation) will be held in Kiel (Germany) from August 29th to Septembre 2nd. Subject : Grassland in a Changing World 2010 - site : http://www.grassland-organicfarming.uni-kiel.de/egf2010/