COORDINATING COUNCIL

Assess the existing infrastructure for monitoring ecosystem greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems of the Russian Federation.

Assess the level of carbon dioxide emission and absorption based on the results of long-term studies of greenhouse gas fluxes by forest and wetland ecosystems in the southern taiga subzone of the European part of the Russian Federation.

Create the infrastructure (power supply, engineering boxes, modular laboratories, etc.) to ensure long-term monitoring of greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems of the southern taiga subzone of the European part of the Russian Federation.

Assess the level of CO2 emission from soils of the mixed forest zone and the deciduous forest zone based on long-term (1997–2022) monitoring data;

Provide pilot predictive assessment of carbon dynamics in the key forest areas of Moscow Oblast under various forest management scenarios;

Create a unified research-based methodological procedure for monitoring CO2 emission from soils and methods of its assessment;

Develop a data presentation structure for the unified national database on CO2 emissions from soils in the Russian Federation;

Create the infrastructure and provide technical support of automated year-round monitoring of ecosystem greenhouse gas fluxes on forested lands of the Federal Research Center “Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences” for the subsequent inclusion into the national network of micrometeorological observation stations;

Obtain and annually update information on the qualitative and quantitative forest parameters (area, wood reserve, predominant species, completeness, bonitet, age and other characteristics);

Obtain and annually update information on the reserves and balance of carbon in forests (main pool dynamics, volumes of carbon emissions and absorption);

Obtain information on the impact of wildfires (areas covered by wildfires, degree of damage, amount of post-fire litter) and other destructive factors on forests and other terrestrial ecosystems;

Provide tools for comprehensive analysis of long-term time series data related to the characteristics of forests and other terrestrial ecosystems, including carbon reserves and carbon dynamics at various (from local to national) spatial levels;

Provide tools for comprehensive processing and analysis of remote sensing data and ground-based surveys to verify the carbon monitoring results for forests and other terrestrial ecosystems.