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DISSEMINATING INFORMATION ON SCIENTIFIC WORK
IN FEDERAL PROTECTED NATURAL AREAS

Scientific research in nature reserves and national parks of Russia / Editor L. V. Kuleshova. — Moscow: All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Nature, 2000. — Edition 2. — Part 1. 1994—1995 — 466 pp.; Part 2. 1996—1997 — 623 pp.

The development of a scientific research system in state nature reserves (SNR) and national parks (NP) makes it difficult to do an analysis because these federal PNAs are numerous and scattered. A Federal Report on the Results of Scientific Research Work (SRW) has been introduced to solve this problem. It was done on the basis of reports made by Russian nature reserves and national parks in accordance with a uniform plan. Such reports were first compiled based on the results of SRW in 1992—1993 (published in 1997).

This form of scientific information dissemination proved to be efficient; it was welcomed by PNA specialists as well as other scientists. The staff of the reserves laboratory of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Nature Conservation defined more exactly the requirements of the reports. The data on SRW in 1994—1997, collected in accordance with their requirements, contain more comprehensive and specific information on specific results of SRW. The books under review reflect scientific research done in 68 SNRs and 9 NPs. Lacking is information from recently established nature reserves that have not had time yet to develop their own research work.

The books include analytical reviews over a period of four years as well as flora and fauna registers. A bibliography of publications for the given period is also provided in the books.

The information on SRW in PNAs is lagging in time due to delays in financing these publications.

The books are published with the support of the Global Ecology Fund “Biodiversity Conservation in the Russian Federation” and IUCN CIS office.

Prof. V.V. Dyezhkin

To receive the books under review, please write to:
Reserves Laboratory, All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Nature,
Sadki-Znamenskoye, Moscow, 113628.
Tel.: (095) 423-19-55.

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