Ecosystem On The Forest Floor

The forest floor is the lowest layer where it is dark hot and damp.

Ecosystem on the forest floor.

Although principally composed of non living organic material the forest floor also teems with a wide variety of. The forest floor is one of the richest components of the forest ecosystem in terms of organisms since it supports a large number of decomposers and predators mostly invertebrates fungi algae bacteria and soil mites. The giant forest hog a species of wild boar is also frequently targeted by mbuti hunters although this species is hunted for sale more often than food. From the forest floor the mbuti hunt fish and crabs from the ituri river a tributary of the congo as well as gather berries from low lying shrubs.

The forest floor also called detritus duff and the o horizon is one of the most distinctive features of a forest ecosystem it mainly consists of shed vegetative parts such as leaves branches bark and stems existing in various stages of decomposition above the soil surface. A forest ecosystem includes all of the organisms in the forest environment as well as the chemical and physical elements of that environment that influence them. In contrast the lightest and thinnest forest floors usually occur in tropical rain forests where decomposition rates are rapid. Almost nothing grows on the forest floor as it is devoid of.

Forest ecology is the study of such ecosystems which tend to be both structurally and biologically complex and diverse. Animals and nature habitats and ecosystems rain forest layers. Only two percent of sunlight gets through the thick canopy trees and understory plants to reach the forest floor.