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Conclusions 231 CONCLUSIONS In view of the climate fluctuations and considerable ongoing change in the Arctic nature, it is crucial to promote the development of phenology, which, along with meteorology, can help more accurately determine the duration of seasons, the rates of Arctic sea ice decline, northward expansion of forests, migrations of vertebrates and other issues related to biosphere change. Phenological information is widely used in agricultural practices in specific regions, forest seed cultivation and gardening, landscape design of private and public areas, game management and hunting, beekeeping, harvesting of berries, mushrooms, medicinal plants, and so on. Informa tion about the timing of flowering onset in major allergy-causing plants is important for preventive medical routines. Phenology as a science is gradually gaining recognition in our country. Thus, phenologists in Moscow are implementing a project with a grant from the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) to develop the Russian volunteer phenology network (Minin, 2015). This is a serious initiative. The website created for the RGS Phenology Network (http://fenolog.rgo. ru) is still at an early phase, and w ill apparently be further filled with both databases and analytical content - automatically generated seasonal development maps, phenological spectra, nature's calendars, as well as communication and feed-back components - forum, online expert support, etc. Enthusiasts willing to observe seasonal changes in the life of plants and animals are, in fact, not so many in our country. Provided relevant support, phenology is sure to become as popular among ordinary people as the now very active bird-watching. A lot is being done for phenology education and awareness building of schoolchildren in St. Petersburg (Fedotova, 2015). This work has lately lost much of its vigor and fell apart into individual phenology clubs tu tored by enthusiastic educators. The Phenology Centre established in 2015 as a subsidiary scientific unit of the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is beginning to restore the Russian phenology network. The Centre’s key objective is to broaden research on phenology issues to make the scientific information available when