There is too little sunlight here for plants to grow.
Floor of a forest.
The forest floor is very dark in a rainforest and hence it is not the home to many plants.
Definition of forest floor.
The richly organic layer of soil and debris characteristic of forested land.
Only two percent of sunlight gets through the thick canopy trees and understory plants to reach the forest floor.
The forest floor also called detritus duff and the o horizon is one of the most distinctive features of a forest ecosystem.
Large leafed shrubs and saplings new trees grow in the patches of sunlight.
The forest floor is also where decomposition takes place.
It mainly consists of shed vegetative parts such as leaves branches bark and stems existing in various stages of decomposition above the soil surface.
The forest floor of covered with yellow and orange leaves forest floor tree fall.
Also many of the largest rainforest animals are found on the forest floor.
Although principally composed of non living organic material the forest floor also teems with a wide variety of fauna and flora.
The forest floor is the bottom layer of the rainforest and its also the darkest layer of the rainforest.