The prospect for development and productive use of the land disapear. On a world scale the possible changes to climatic stability could effect us all. A forest and particularly a rainforest is an enormous interconnection of organisms each depending on each other. Everywhere you look in a forest there is life interacting with life creating new life and absorbing old. On the forest floor light, rejected by the canopy filters down to shine on a variety of life forms.
Seedlings struggle to gather enough light and strain their growing tips toward the canopy.
Masses of fungal strands grow through and dissolve rotting logs occasionally blooming with the most beautifully coloured soft bodied fruit bodies. Their spores spread into the air and onto plants and soil around. Velvet worms burrow into the rotting logs and hunt for insects. Ants gather up leaves and soil to bury in their subterranean fungal farms. Beetles gather up the dung from canopy creatures and roll it away to their dung processing burrows.