Ukrainian Journal of Forest and Wood Science

It was researched the biometric characteristics of 300-year-old common oak  grown in the Kyiv’s parklands. It’s analyzed the spread of roots by soil horizons, on distance from the trunk in meridional and latitudinal directions. It’s found out  that in humus, humus-eluvial and illuvial  horizons the saturation in soil by roots are changed respectively on 0,2-5,3% 0,5-3,5 and 0,2-7,4%. The schemes of distribution system roots of common oak tree on soil horizons in mutually perpendicular directions.

common oak, system of roots, surface area of the roots, soil horizons, saturation of soil roots, the role of melioration