This section of BioDat aims at uniting fragmentary information materials that characterize the state of the objects of living nature. Here you will find the collection of information products - data bases, tables and text documents, cartographic systems and map sets. The objects of living nature are complex and dynamic. Only collective knowledge and not only "the official statistics" would provide reliable notion of them. BioDat presents not only official materials (National Report on Biodiversity, national subject reports for the Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity, etc.), but also the results of research and summarization done by individual specialists. First of all, it is the information about plants, mushrooms and animals. Precisely this section of BioDat is supposed to be supplemented by the data submitted by individual biologists who will find it possible to publish the results of their research to the benefit of the scientific community. Due to consolidation of uncoordinated results of observations, the common result will reflect the experience of the whole community of researchers. The Atlas of North Eurasia biodiversity shows that isolated, and often fragmentary observations, are able to produce new knowledge only when they are placed into spatial (map) or time (dynamic sequence) context. The listing of flora of one specific reserve presents in itself only the minimal amount of knowledge if it cannot be compared with flora listings of other reserves and scientific stations or to trace the dynamics of the changes in the floral composition of the reserve following the beginning of the given territory conservation many years ago. Presented information resources are intended mostly for their use in the practice of wildlife protection and are adapted to this purpose accordingly.
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