Forest floor
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The forest floor, also called detritus or duff, is the part of a forest ecosystem that mediates between the living, aboveground portion of the forest and the mineral soil, principally composed of dead
floor of a temperate broadleaf forest showing leaf litter.
Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta, Pryor's Wood, Stevenage)
Sarcodes sanguinea: a parasitic plant obtaining nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi of tree roots (N. America).
Cloud forest (Ecuador)
Soil carbon storage is an important function of terrestrial ecosystems. Soil contains more carbon than plants and the atmosphere combined. Understanding what maintains the soil carbon pool is importan
Ectomycorrhizal fruiting body, Amanita spp.
