Ecosystem On The Forest Floor

An automated irga based flow through system was used with chambers inserted into the soil.

Ecosystem on the forest floor.

Although principally composed of non living organic material the forest floor also teems with a wide variety of. Animals and nature habitats and ecosystems rain forest layers. 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. 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. Forest ecology is the study of such ecosystems which tend to be both structurally and biologically complex and diverse. 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 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.

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. 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.