According to the Yugra State University website, the university is a participant in the key innovative project dedicated to creating a unified national system for monitoring climatically active substances. Within the framework of the project, scientists of the University – employees at the UNESCO chair for environmental dynamics and global climate change – will face the task of monitoring the dynamics of carbon stocks in typical wetland ecosystems in the middle taiga of Western Siberia to assess the rate of carbon deposition in said ecosystems.
Participant’s goal: Measure carbon stocks in typical swamp microlandscapes in the middle taiga of Western Siberia in order to assess the rate of carbon deposition in said ecosystems based on the difference between the stocks estimated within the interval of 5–7 years.
Participant’s objectives: 1. Develop methodological approaches to assessing carbon pools and fluxes in wetland ecosystems of Russia as a work subgroup on wetland ecosystems within the framework of the key innovative government project assignment; 2. Measure carbon stocks in typical swamp microlandscapes of the middle taiga in Western Siberia with separation by component; 3. Monitor atmosphere gas exchange of carbon dioxide in spruce-aspen forests of the middle taiga in Western Siberia by the method of turbulent pulsations, as well as associated hydrometeorological parameters of the environment, such as temperature and humidity, photosynthetically active radiation, wind speed and direction, and precipitation; 4. Evaluate the carry-over of dissolved organic carbon from wetland ecosystems with surface runoff based on the monitoring of the concentration of dissolved organic carbon in waters flowing from swamps; 5. Conduct a detailed survey at the test site using UAVs to assess the areas occupied by typical swamp microlandscapes, and interpret the obtained ground-based data in space; 6. Arrange new test sites for intensive monitoring in the lichen pine forest and the moss swamp at the Kondinskie Lakes site, as well as at the swamp site in Salymsky District.
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