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The aim of the project is to develop a national system for monitoring carbon pools and greenhouse gas flows in the territory of the Russian Federation based on the integration of ground-based measurement data and the creation of a system for recording data on greenhouse gas flows and the carbon budget in terrestrial ecosystems.
The data obtained through the national monitoring system will help improve the quality of management decisions made during the decarbonization of the Russian economy and its adaptation to climate change, which includes the quality of life of citizens.
These data will be used in the future to adjust the activities of the implementation plan for the Low-Carbon Development Strategy until 2050
The Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences joined Consortium 4 "Research and Educational Center (REC) "Carbon in Ecosystems: Monitoring" as one of the four leading organizations. To implement the VIP GZ, the "Carbon Pools and Flows Monitoring Group" was organized based on the soil nitrogen and carbon cycles laboratory.
The aim of the work is to assess the carbon pools and budget in representative ecosystems of coniferous-broad-leaved and broad-leaved forests of the southern Moscow region and predictive modeling of the dynamics of carbon pools and flows in forest ecosystems.
Research objectives:
Conducting intensive year-round monitoring of CO2 emissions from soils of 6 representative ecosystems in the mixed forest zone and the broad-leaved forest zone and analyzing the obtained data in connection with changes in hydrothermal indicators.
Creating a database on CO2 emissions from soils of representative ecosystems of the southern Moscow region in accordance with the developed structure.
Integrating observations of CO2 emissions from soils, conducted in other organizations of the consortium, into a common database for inclusion in the IAS and its primary analysis within the framework of the created national monitoring network.
Developing brief instructions and conducting training seminars on determining CO2 emissions from soils by the chamber method using domestic equipment.
Determining the main carbon pools in representative forest ecosystems of the southern Moscow region according to uniform methods developed by the consortium expert groups, and analyzing the obtained data.
Assessing the rates of change in C reserves in soils of the southern Moscow region during the conversion of arable lands into fallow lands.
Using existing tools for integrating the Romul_Hum soil organic matter dynamics model with the FORRUS-S dynamic stand model, to forecast changes in the main pools of mortmass carbon (deadwood, fallen trees, litter, soil organic matter) and soil heterotrophic respiration for key forest areas.
