What is the “necrosphere?” I came up with this term while writing How to Love a Forest, when I realized that there was no term for the incredibly diverse and essential community of living things that make their lives and find their habitat inside of the profound and beautiful process of tree mortality. The necrosphere includes tons of species of fungi, bacteria, and invertebrates— and may also include mosses, lichens, salamanders, rodents, woodpeckers and more. It is such a rich habitat that dead trees may have 4x the biomass as living trees! The necrosphere is as normal — and arguably as essential —a part of healthy forests as healthy, live trees.
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