Phenological observations at the SSU Botanical Garden Education and Research Center (Recording of Observations and Processing of Results)

The article presents the methodical aspects of fixing phenological observations in the collections of the SSU Botanical Garden Education and Research Center and processing results using MS Excel tables and formulas. An electronic form for the registration of phenological observations has been created for most collections of departments “Flora and vegetation” and “Introduction of floral and decorative crops”. Phenological dates are stored on phenological cards, each Excel sheet corresponds to one card. The function of VPR (vertical data search) is used for automatically translation the date into a continuous series of numbers (the start of a continuous series of numbers is March 1 of each year, as well as before, when processing manually) and for reversing the number to date.