This is a science and a set of information about seasonal changes in nature, their frequency, causes, timing and patterns of seasonal processes.
Since the establishment of the reserve, international cooperation on seasonal changes in life of plants and animals has been initiated in the Far North. The project entitled Seasonal Life of Nature in the Kola North was proposed by the Pasvik Nature Reserve in 1996 as an international program for 5 participants: three nature reserves in the Murmansk region (Lapland, Kandalaksha and Pasvik), the Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute of the Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ecological Center Svanhovd (now NIBIO Svanhovd, Norway).
An international phenological route was created in the Pasvik Nature Reserve. The data collected on it is used in international projects, in the preparation of analytical reports, articles, etc. Within this project, according to a general methodology, during the entire growing season, each organization conducts phenological observations of 19 plant species, in which 16 phenological phases are recorded.
During cooperation in phenology many meetings were held, articles were published in Russian and foreign scientific journals, as well as collections of Seasonal life of nature in the Kola North (1996, 2001). The project formed the basis for a series of phenological research projects (Fenoklim and colleagues), and also initiated the development of the Russian-Norwegian environmental education school project
Phenology of the North Calotte.
In 2016 to continue work on the project, the reserve published a scientific and methodological manual entitled Phenological atlas of plants (authors: Polikarpova N., Makarova O.).
You can download it
here (pp. 1-170 in Russian, from p. 171 till the end in English).
Nowadays Pasvik Nature Reserve is a member of the Phenological Working Group and, together with other protected areas of Russia, is developing a general phenological program and methodology for studying seasonal phenomena in protected areas of our country.
The cooperation of experts from different countries and the joint collection of data on the routes helps to introduce the world scientific practice the elements of the scientific program of the Chronicle of Nature and the Russian observation system.