The Forest Floor
Only two percent of sunlight gets through the thick canopy trees and understory plants to reach the forest floor.
The forest floor. It is also home to thousands of plants and animals and provides support for trees responsible for the formation of the canopy. The forest floor the forest floor is the bottom layer of the rainforest and its also the darkest layer of the rainforest. The forest floor is one of the principal sites of decomposition a process paramount for the continuance of the forest as a whole.
Large leafed shrubs and saplings new trees grow in the patches of sunlight. 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 is also where decomposition takes place.
Dead leaves fallen from the plants in the layers above cover the ground. The forest floor is the lowest layer where it is dark hot and damp.