Panorama of papers in the proceedings of the Panhellenic Rangeland Congresses of the Hellenic Range and Pasture Society (1996 – 2006)

The Hellenic Range and Pasture Society (HΕRPΑS) was founded in 1992 in order to promote the range science in Greece. From 1996 to 2006, it organised 5 Panhellenic Rangeland Congresses (PRC) in various cities of Greece. In this paper, the bibliography that was published in the proceedings of these congresses is presented in an electronic database and the number of papers, authors and institutions that took part, as well as the subject matters that had been covered were statistically analyzed. Altogether, 267 papers were presented in an oral or poster form, distributed in 14 thematic sessions. Authors were 294 scientists of various specialities from 94 institutions and organisms of Greece and other countries. Key-words of these papers are numerous and cover a large number of subjects related with range science. The number of authors that participated as well as the number of papers that were presented in these congresses increased from the 1st PRC to the 4th PRC, but decreased in the 5th PRC. The database will be uploaded in the HΕRPΑS website to be permanently enriched with new data in the future.