Nature Chronicles
In Russian nature reserves there is a special system for monitoring natural processes which is called "Nature Chronicles". It is a scientific program number one for all the nature reserves of Russia.

Generally, it is a scientific report, which comprises all information on ecosystems health and their components in the nature reserve and in the surrounding area in a particular year.

Preparation of the Nature Chronicles is a part of the state target of the nature reserve. The Nature Chronicles is then sent in the form of a report to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation.
In Russian nature reserves there is a special system for monitoring natural processes which is called "Nature Chronicles". It is a scientific program number one for all the nature reserves of Russia.

Generally, it is a scientific report, which comprises all information on ecosystems health and their components in the nature reserve and in the surrounding area in a particular year.

Preparation of the Nature Chronicles is a part of the state target of the nature reserve. The Nature Chronicles is then sent in the form of a report to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation.
Monitoring methodology

There is a monitoring network or a special network of sampling and discount areas and routes for conducting research in Pasvik Nature Reserve.

We are gathering the information for Nature Chronicles:

  • at the same stations;
  • on the same methodology;
  • continuously;
  • for many years.

The nature reserve area is an open-air scientific laboratory; it is indelibly eliminated from economic use and serves for conducting research in conditions of the Far North on the border between northern taiga and forest tundra in the valley of Pasvik River.

When collecting data at the same stations and on the same methodology during continuous long time, we have an opportunity to gather comparable, unified material about the state of the following objects:

  • nature complexes: forests, wetlands, mountain tundra, meadows, Pasvik river waters and lakes;

  • and their components: fish, birds, mammals, vascular plants, lichen and other objects.

This allows us to monitor changes in flora and fauna, composition and structure of individual species populations and objects of groups for the long term.
When collecting data at the same stations and on the same methodology during continuous long time, we have an opportunity to gather comparable, unified material about the state of the following objects:


  • nature complexes: forests, wetlands, mountain tundra, meadows, Pasvik river waters and lakes;
  • and their components: fish, birds, mammals, vascular plants, lichen and other objects.
This allows us to monitor changes in flora and fauna, composition and structure of individual species populations and objects of groups for the long term.
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