Dear colleagues, after a small delay (only a couple
of years) and 9 years of hard work our joint data paper on phenology is finally
out. Congratulations to all 203 participants from 96
organizations!
Data paper on Nature Scientific
Data:
Blog on Springer Research
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Hidden Environmental Data Treasure Trove
The strength is in the numbers.
For many decades – in some cases a full century – scientists have been recording
comparable biodiversity data in more than 150 protected areas across the former
USSR. Almost all of these records have been stored on paper, thus hiding the
bigger picture from sight. The Chronicles of Nature program is a biodiversity
monitoring endeavour exceptional in almost every aspect: It is comprehensive in
nature, encompassing records of phenology, winter track route counts, bird route
counts, small mammal trapping, insect monitoring and quite a few more
specialized surveys. It spans over long time periods (almost a century), large
areas (a continent), and it has been systematically collected by dedicated, full
time scientific staff. The data generated by the Chronicles of Nature program
has been meticulously compiled as an annual report, on for each protected area.
For a long time, this unique scientific contribution has then laid hidden in the
archives. Most of the data are still sitting on bookshelves, inside the reserves
and in ministries, waiting to be digitized and analysed by the scientific
community. Over the past 8 years, we have now scratched the surface of
mobilizing these data. To this end, we have been working with an amazing group
of more than 300 colleagues in over 80 organizations from Russia, Ukraine,
Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. Together, we have now brought together a
first coherent set of long-term data on phenology (Scientific Data: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0376-z, Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1491223). This has been a
thrilling journey – and it is only a beginning. We are excited by the enthusiasm
of the environmental science professionals who initiated this collaboration.
They gave the world an opportunity to connect with the results of their life
long work, which had remained mostly unknown to the international scientific
community. Sadly, in most of the participating countries, protected areas and
their staff are currently facing tough challenges. We hope that the publication
of these data will summon the interest of the international community, and focus
attention on the global importance of these areas and the irreplaceable
scientific work done by their staff. Should these time series break, there is no
way to re-forge them.
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Babina S., Babushkin M., Bakin O., Barabancova A., Basilskaja O., Belova N.,
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Cherenkova N., Chistjakov S., Chuhontseva S., Davydov E., Demchenko V.,
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T., Grishchenko V., Gromyko L., Hohryakov V., Hritankov A., Ignatenko E.,
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Kosenkov G., Kossenko S., Kotlugalyamova E., Kozlovsky E., Kozsheechkin V.,
Kozurak A., Kozyr I., Krasnopevtseva A., Kruglikov S., Kuberskaya O.,
Kudryavtsev A., Kulebyakina E., Kulsha Y., Kupriyanova M., Kurbanbagamaev M.,
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Megalinskaja I., Meydus A., Minin A., Mitrofanov O., Motruk M., Myslenkov A.,
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Polyanskaya T., Pospelov I., Pospelova E., Prokhorov I., Prokosheva I., Puchnina
L., Putrashyk I., Raiskaya J., Rozhkov Y., Rozhkova O., Rudenko M., Rybnikova
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Teleganova V., Teplov V., Teplova V., Tertitsa T., Timoshkin V., Tirski D.,
Tolmachev A., Tomilin A., Tselishcheva L., Turgunov M., Tyukh Y., Vladimir V.,
Vargot E., Vasin A., Vasina A., Vekliuk A., Vetchinnikova L., Vinogradov V.,
Volodchenkov N., Voloshina I., Xoliqov T., Yablonovska-Grishchenko E., Yakovlev
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2020. Vol 7(47). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0376-z
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