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Global warming leads to permafrost degradation, an increase in peat degradation and changes in the parameters of macroelement balance. The experimental investigation of the decomposition of plant matter in the forest-tundra zone showed that this process in the active 30-cm top layer is slower than in middle and southern taiga subzones. Due to their chemical composition Sphagnum mosses are the most stable to decomposition