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| Common Habitats Found in Forests The dark, humid and damp leaf litter habitat with its stagnant air and constant temperature support millipedes, earthworms, ants and spiders. The rotting log community is damp and dark too. Still air and constant temperature encourage bacteria and fungi to grow here. Many creepy crawlies found in the leaf litter habitat reside beneath the fallen log. A single tree in the forest can also support birds, squirrels, ants, snails, spiders and bird nest ferns. |
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| The habitats mentioned above are also found in the rainforests. However, rainforests consist of a larger number of habitats than the other types of forests. Populations of macaws and monkeys form a community that lives at the canopy of the forest. Squirrels and tree frogs form a community that lives in the shady under-storey while ants, fungi, mosses and iguanas form a community on the forest floor. | ||||||||
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Sources: Plant litter. (2008, March 10). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:55, March 16, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plant_litter&oldid=197208396 All photographs on this page were taken by the Forest Buddies Team. Next
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