The Young Scientist Laboratory "Carbon Monitoring in Terrestrial Ecosystems" was established in 2022 within the framework of the national project of the Ministry of Education and Science "Science and Universities" and the governmental project of environmental development of the Russian Federation and climate change.

The work of the laboratory is aimed at assessing the components of carbon balance in natural, agricultural and post-agricultural ecosystems and finding effective solutions for the accumulation of organic carbon in soils of different bioclimatic zones of the European Russia.

The laboratory team consists of young specialists in soil science, agrochemistry, ecology, soil microbiology, forestry, modern GIS approaches, machine learning and modelling, whose skills allow to assess the distribution of carbon cycle indicators on spatial and temporal scales, to identify their main drivers and to obtain a predictive assessment of carbon balance components. In addition, the laboratory staff solve research problems aimed at clarifying the calculated estimates of the carbon balance in terrestrial ecosystems.

The following results have been obtained:
1. In cooperation with the industrial partner Orlovka-AIC (Samara Region), it was shown that no-tillage of agrohernozems contributes to the stabilisation of soil organic matter and the accumulation of carbon in the soil compared to traditional ploughing;
2. The current rate of change of soil carbon stocks over the last 9 years in agrogenic and postagrogenic ecosystems of the southern Moscow region was assessed;
3. Recommendations are made for the selection of suitable models and their input parameters for predicting CO2 emissions under the forest based on 25 years of monitoring data in the southern Moscow region;
4. A neural network model has been developed to detect individual trees on aerial photographs of young forests formed on former agricultural land.

It has been published the 9 articles, 6 of them in the Q1 and Q2 journals of WOS and Scopus.