Canopy soil of old-growth forest fosters unique invertebrate diversity that is vulnerable to human disturbance

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Mar 29, 2024, 2:23 pm500 ptsHotTop
Yakushima Island, a world heritage site in Japan, is renowned for its rich biodiversity. The huge Japanese cedar (Yaku-sugi) forests, which are over a thousand years old, are a symbolic ecosystem of the island. Although the canopy of these colossal trees, including the Japanese cedar (Yaku-sugi), is considered…

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