Description Of The Rainforest Floor

The floor is relatively clear of vegetation due to the deep darkness created by perhaps 100 feet 30 m of canopy vegetation above.

Description of the rainforest floor.

Decomposition is the process by which fungi and microorganisms break down dead plants and animals and recycle essential materials and nutrients. The floor is relatively clear of vegetation due to the deep darkness created by perhaps 100 feet 30 m of canopy vegetation above. Large leafed shrubs and saplings new trees grow in the patches of sunlight. The forest floor is also where decomposition takes place.

It is actually rather the opposite. A rainforest is defined by merriam webster as a tropical woodland with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches 254 centimeters and marked by lofty broad leaved evergreen trees forming a continuous canopy. Rainforests are divided into layers or storeys. There are cool rainforests to be found in north america s.

Rafflesia arnoldii which bears the largest flower on earth exists among the sparse population of plants on the tropical rainforest floor. The forest floor of primary tropical rainforest is rarely the thick tangled jungle of movies and adventure stories. There are a few saprophytic flowering plants on the floor of the rainforest. The forest floor of primary tropical rainforest is rarely the thick tangled jungle of movies and adventure stories.

Saprophytic plants are inconspicuous and small few are more than 8 inches 20cm tall. It is actually rather the opposite. They have no chlorophyll. There are different types of rainforests throughout the world and they exist on every continent except for antarctica.