Abstract
The Central Chernozem State Nature Biosphere Reserve (CCR) is situated in the Kursk region. It is practically the only reference area of the forest-steppe biome in the European part of Russia. The prior attention to scientific research in CCR has been given since its establishment in 1935. In 1978 CCR was included in the world network of UNESCO biosphere reserves that contributed to the intensification of scientific cooperation with Russian and foreign scientific organizations. The CCR has established long-term monitoring of various natural objects and ecosystem processes. In this paper, we show the main types of dynamics of natural processes using three examples illustrating the results of long-term monitoring: climate change over 73 years, dynamics of the English oak mortality over 30 years, and population dynamics of the greater mole-rat over 29 years. Based on the results of this analysis, the unsolved problems of interpreting environmental monitoring data and their use for forecasting in decision-making processes are formulated. The inclusion of monitoring data from nature reserves into scientific parlance remains an urgent and actual practical task for the staff of the state reserves and all interested specialists of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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