The study quantitatively assessed the response of respiration of forest soils of different textures (sandy and loamy) to an increase in soil temperature (temperature coefficient Q10) depending on the weather conditions of each year of research.

The present study covered a 1500 km climatic transect, which includes 5 zonal steppe types and 2 soil types. The contribution of plants to the chemical composition of the upper horizons of steppe soils (20 cm, root zone) formed during the Holocene was assessed.

In a large international study of soil organic carbon in cryogenic soils and upper permafrost, an unprecedented amount of data was analysed, including carbon distribution in more than 2,700 soil profiles.