Ecosystem Modeling Lab

The Laboratory of Ecosystem Modeling was established in 1995. Its organizer and head until May 31, 2015 was A.S. Komarov.

The main scientific areas of research of the Laboratory are:

• computer modeling of organic matter dynamics in forest ecosystems;
• modeling of organic matter dynamics in soils;
• modeling of biophilic element dynamics in living ground cover;
• modeling of spatial structure of forest ecosystems;
• analysis of the impact of nitrogen compounds on the dynamics of forest ecosystems and the provision of forest soils with nitrogen nutrition;
• analysis of vegetation dynamics during successions and modeling of the processes of formation of species composition of forest ecosystems;
• analysis of spatio-temporal organization of grass phytocenoses.

The Laboratory is developing an original system of forest ecosystem models EFIMOD, a distinctive feature of which is the ecosystem approach, when special attention is paid to the exchange of energy and substances between the biotic and abiotic components of the ecosystem. These models organically combine population and balance approaches, which allows us to identify the interaction between the environment and the biotic component of the ecosystem and explain the features of production processes caused by the relationship between the population structure of vegetation and the cycles of elements in the "soil-vegetation-climate" system.

For those wishing to get to know the laboratory's activities better, we suggest visiting its web page.