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A steady and significant warming of the autumn-winter period and an increase in moisture supply during the growing season have taken place in the Northern Caspian Lowland, resulting in its general mesophytization. In particular, the dominant species in plant communities on solonchakous solonetzes have changed, with black wormwood (Artemisia pauciflora) being replaced by forage kochia (Kochia prostrata). However, these ecosystems remain in dynamic equilibrium, and their current changes and productivity fluctuations do not exceed natural limits and are reversible.