what do you mean by understory
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The understory is the underlying layer of vegetation in a forest or wooded area, especially the trees and shrubs growing between the forest canopy and the forest floor. Plants in the understory comprise an assortment of seedlings and saplings of canopy trees together with specialist understory shrubs and herbs.
Understory layer, Amazon rainforest
This layer is dark. Plants here see very little sunlight compared to those up in the canopy. Lack of light limits plant growth and those successful at surviving here must have special adaptations to deal with the gloom.The leaves are much broader here to give them a larger surface area to soak up any precious sunlight and you will find more shrubs and small trees in clearings where a larger tree has fallen – tim-beeeer!The understory holds the greatest population of frogs, snakes and insects.This is a red-eyed tree frog and they live in the understory layer of rainforests in Central America. They are nocturnal creatures. During the day they rest on branches or leaves with their legs tucked beneath them and their eye shut, making them virtually invisible!