Question

enlist the soil inhabitants

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Most soil organisms are microscopic and occur in large numbers. Over 5,000 species of bacteria may inhabit just one gram of soil.  Single-cell organisms, such as protozoa and amoeba abound.  Fungi, cyanobacteria, lichen, and algae are also part of the soil community. Micro-invertebrates such as nematodes, mites, rotifers and others inhabit the soil too. Thousands of larger insect and other arthropod species spend all or part of their lives underground, including many beetles and two important colonial insects: ants and termites. Snails, slugs, and that master decomposer—the earthworm—are also part of the mix.

Even many vertebrates spend much of their time underground, including salamanders and toads, lizards and snakes, and mammals such as pocket gophers, ground squirrels and shrews.  Even larger animals, including foxes, coyotes and bears, spend much of their time in their underground dens.

All these organisms, combined with the root systems of all the plants in the forest, create a biomass- a volume of living material- below ground that is greater than the biomass above ground in the forest! Most of our forest is below ground and out of sight.