The research of the Laboratory of Structure and Dynamics of Plankton Communities (Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS) addresses key problems of modern oceanography and marine biology. Our work covers a wide range of topics, from the evolutionary morphology of higher crustaceans to biogeographic patterns in different regions of the World Ocean. Thanks to the support of leading scientific foundations, including the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), we carry out large-scale projects on the biodiversity of the pelagic zone, the assessment of plankton stocks and the role of the biological carbon pump. Below is a list of current and successfully completed grants. Their results make a significant contribution to understanding the structure and dynamics of ocean ecosystems from the surface to the deep-sea layers.
Status: Ongoing
2025 competition, event “Research by world-class scientific laboratories within the framework of the priorities of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation”
Tropical and subtropical plankton of the World Ocean from the surface to the depths: biodiversity, stocks and relationship with climatic processes
Principal investigator: Vereshchaka A.L., DSc, Chief Researcher
Status: Successfully completed
Russian Science Foundation (RSF) 2022 competition, “Fundamental scientific research and exploratory research by individual scientific groups”
Primary production and zooplankton biomass in the ocean: a linking mechanism and its statistical model as a tool for assessing the plankton stock
Principal investigator: Vereshchaka A.L., DSc, Chief Researcher
Status: Successfully completed
RSF 2022 competition, “Fundamental scientific research and exploratory research by individual scientific groups”
Biogeography of Atlantic zooplankton: spatial structure and genetic connectivity of populations
Principal investigator: Kulagin D.N., PhD, Senior Researcher
Status: Successfully completed
RSF 2022 competition, “Fundamental scientific research and exploratory research by individual scientific groups”
Colonisation of new ecological niches by pelagic fauna: evolutionary adaptations of higher crustaceans (Malacostraca) to life in different habitats of the hydrosphere
Principal investigator: Lunina A.A., PhD, Senior Researcher
Status: Successfully completed
RSF 2018 competition, “Fundamental scientific research and exploratory research by individual scientific groups”
Deep-sea plankton of the Atlantic: distribution and stocks from the Subarctic to the Subantarctic
Principal investigator: Vereshchaka A.L., DSc, Chief Researcher
Status: Successfully completed
RSF 2018 competition, “Fundamental scientific research and exploratory research by individual scientific groups”
Evolution and biodiversity of planktonic eucarids: shrimp and krill
Principal investigator: Lunina A.A., PhD, Senior Researcher
