Differences between an Old Growth Forest and a Secondgrowth Forest

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Stumbled across this incredible visual demonstration of the difference between a healthy, mature old growth forest ecosystem and a secondgrowth crop forest, and had to share! • In the old growth forest, we can see all sorts of complexity within the ecosystem - a multi layered canopy made of different tree species at different ages, rich vegetation on the forest floor, diverse understory, standing dead trees, dead wood on the forest floor, and varying pit and mound topography! All of this complexity helps contribute to a robust hydrological regime that regulates and purifies water as it makes its way through the ecosystem, while also providing home and habitat to all sorts of plants and critters to create a rich medley of biodiversity here. • Yet in the secondgrowth crop forest, we can immediately sense that things are different here. All that complexity is replaced with a simplified single-age stand with a single layered canopy that allows little light to filter through, greatly reducing the biodiversity in the area. This in turn effects the hydrological function of these forests that erodes soils faster leading to siltation of rivers and landslides, and dries out easier in the summer while also creating ladder fuels that contributes to high intensity wildfires. • …pretty spooky huh? Secondgrowth forests like these are reminiscent of those scary forests with witches and goblins that you’d imagine in many fairy tales, which were based on many European forests that began to develop like this as those western societies consumed more wood more rapidly. • Pretty neat little observation demonstrating just how incredibly cool, complex and amazing a healthy forest ecosystem really is! Let’s have more of this, yeah? • Like this vid? Support Nerdy About Nature on Patreon to make more engaging videos like this possible! • || SUPPORT THESE VIDEOS : / nerdyaboutnature • Subscribe to Nerdy About Nature for more engaging fun-facts to make your next jaunt into the outdoors more rad! • || SUBSCRIBE : http://www.youtube.com/NerdyAboutNatu... • || IG : / nerdyaboutnature • || FB : / nerdyaboutnature • || http://www.NerdyAboutNature.com • __________________________________________________ • Produced Directed by Ross Reid • ~ I'd like to acknowledge that this video was filmed on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations. ~ • __________________________________________________

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