Forest Floor
by Theresa Tahara
Title
Forest Floor
Artist
Theresa Tahara
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
A tangle of roots, branches, fallen leaves, twigs and other detritus lie at the base of a twisted old tree. Beautiful earth tones.
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. Although principally composed of nonliving organic material, the forest floor also teems with a wide variety of fauna and flora. It is one of the richest components of the ecosystem from the standpoint of biodiversity because of the large number of decomposers and predators present, mostly belonging to invertebrates, fungi, algae, bacteria, and archaea.
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September 20th, 2015
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