Laboratory of Wetland Studies

Assessment of the scale of the Russian marshlands, their diversity and the carbon pool enclosed in peatlands, assessment of the manifestation of the biosphere role of the marshes in atmospheric CO₂ sequestration and water accumulation.

Study of the structure and functioning of marsh biogeocenoses on the basis of full-scale stationary, including year-round, observations.

Study of poorly studied ecosystem consequences of different use of swamps (peculiarities of fires during hydromelioration, drainage of swamp forests, beaver settlement on forest drainage channels, greenhouse gas emission during peat extraction, etc.).