Макарова, О. А. Фенологический атлас растений / Н. В. Поликарпова, О. А. Макарова ; М-во природ. ресурсов и экологии Рос. Федерации, Федер. гос. бюджет. учреждение «Гос. природ. заповедник «Пасвик» ; [худож.: Хохлов В. А. ; пер.: Кислова О. С.]. - Рязань : Голос губернии, 2016.

Introduction 179 A a series of educational slide shows that we entitled “Video Atlas of Plant Phenophases" was produced from this database. The materials have been used both within this school project and in the Pasvik reserve’s environmental education routines for many years. The 'live' illustrations and their supplementary descriptions were tried out in real life. The video atlas has helped us a lot in teaching phenology basics to children, but we wanted something more. Change of observers in strict nature reserves is a stressful process. When a new person comes, unfamiliar with phenological survey methods, they need to be trained to secure methods continuity and faultless data sampling. It became obvious that brief descriptions of phenophases and their scanned images is not enough. There was a need to supplement the matrix with photographs of phenological events in full swing, collect phase indication materials, clarify distinctions between phase names in nature reserves at least within our region. In fact, we started unifying the methodology, and made first moves at harmonizing phenological meth ods. We wanted the manual to be good not only for schoolchildren and their teachers, but also for those who deal with identification and timing of phenophase beginning/end as part of their duties in nature reserves. We didn’t manage to actualize this great idea promptly. Having worked in the nature reserve for many years and having no in-house phenologist around, we are the ones in charge of implementing these observations, training assistants, lecturing and advising schoolchildren and students on phenology issues. The book preparation process eventually took nearly 15 years. It proved to be far more difficult to gather all this material than we had thought, even for a limited number of species. Even more so because having thought it over, we decided to add descriptive materials and primarily use publications by Russian phenologists. We have also received valuable advice from reputable Russian researcher A. A. Minin and Norwegian professor F. E. Wielgolaski, for which we are deeply and cordially grateful. Information from scientific phenological projects implemented lately between the Murmansk Region, Norway and Finland with active involvement of the Pasvik Reserve (Shutova et al., 2004,2005; Karslen et al., 2008,2012a, b) has also helped us to decide on the format of this manual. It is a kind of a guide on plant phenology for the High North