Is the soil rich in nutrients in the rain forest?

Question

Is the soil rich in nutrients in the rain forest?

Answer 1

yes.. very

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest

Answer 2

Depends on your rain forest.

In the tropical Amazon rainforests, the answer is, paradoxically, no.  The nutrients are all in the living plants.

Answer 3

Very interesting question... The idea is that it's very rich, how ever, most soils in tropical regions are very old and highly weathered.  Actual nutrient (plant available cations) like N, P, K, Ca, S, etc are quite limited.  Most of the available nutrients are stored in the biomass, thus, tropical rainforests typically are characterized by a very high nutrient turnover, or cycling rate.  The warm and moist conditions are conducive to microbial and fungi activity which supports this.

Answer 4

Surprisingly, no.  The abundance of growth there is because of all the decomposing plant and animal matter.  If you cut down the forest, you interrupt that flow of nutrients and disrupt the water cycle, leaving you with a desert.

Answer 5

No becouse the plants asorb nutrients ,but becouse of the great number of plants there is very few nutrients/minerals left in the soil.

Answer 6

Yes that's why there are so many plants.