Soil Condition on the Border of Natural Habitat of English Aok in Southern Forest-Steppe (European Part of Russia)

Introduction. The topicality of the problem is determined with significant reduction of the area of oak groves in Europe and the necessity to study in detail the limits of adaptation of English oak to the un-favourable factors of environment, in whole, and soil conditions, in particular. Oak groves of water-parting of southern forest-steppe are of particular interest. Such oak groves grow on the border of English oak habitat and are adapted to soil salination. The goal of the V