Ecosystem On The Forest Floor

Although principally composed of non living organic material the forest floor also teems with a wide variety of.

Ecosystem on the forest floor.

Large leafed shrubs and saplings new trees grow in the patches of sunlight. 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. The forest floor is the lowest layer where it is dark hot and damp. 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.

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

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. 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. In contrast the lightest and thinnest forest floors usually occur in tropical rain forests where decomposition rates are rapid.