Grasslands Monitoring Project 2006

The Grassland Monitoring Project 2006 is initially focusing on the two priority Annex I grassland habitats: *Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (6210) and *Species-rich Nardus grasslands on siliceous substrates in mountain areas (6230).

The project concentrated on the assessment of these two categories only within those candidate Special Areas of Conservation (cSACs) which list either of these two grassland habitats as qualifying interests, where an assessment of Representativity is deemed to be C or higher. The assessment and monitoring structure employs rapid and simple assessment techniques, deriving information from vegetation surveys and from assessments of threats and management practices.