Ecosystem On The Forest Floor

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.

Ecosystem on the forest floor.

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. Almost nothing grows on the forest floor as it is devoid of. Large leafed shrubs and saplings new trees grow in the patches of sunlight. Description we measured forest floor co 2 flux in two contrasting ecosystems white pine plantation and northern hardwood ecosystems at low and high elevations respectively in may and september 1993 to quantify differences and determine factors regulating co 2 fluxes.

Forest ecology is the study of such ecosystems which tend to be both structurally and biologically complex and diverse. An automated irga based flow through system was used with chambers inserted into the soil. Although principally composed of non living organic material the forest floor also teems with a wide variety of. In contrast the lightest and thinnest forest floors usually occur in tropical rain forests where decomposition rates are rapid.

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. Only two percent of sunlight gets through the thick canopy trees and understory plants to reach the forest floor. 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.