Rainforest Floor - North Queensland Australia - Middle School Rain Forest Shrub Layer/Forest Floor

! Rainforest Floor ! North Queensland Australia
Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodges

The Forest Floor:
* The forest floor is home to old fallen leaves and fruits, rotten branches, ancient or diseased trees, mosses, lichens, fungi and many animal species.
* Mosses of different greens cover the fallen tree trunks, which as they rot, also find bracket shaped fungal fruiting bodies growing on them. The fungi contain millions of microscopic single-celled reproductive spores, which are dispersed by wind, rain-splash, animals or by the fruiting body itself by exploding when mature.
* Fungi and bacteria are the catalysts of the decomposition process. They break up rotting vegetation into smaller pieces (detritus) and make food available for many creatures collectively known as detritivores.

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