Ecosystem of a Rotting Log

We went into the woods behind the library today and investigated the ecosystem of a rotting log. A lot of pines had been cut about 10-15 years ago and left to rot. We rolled some over, dug through the debris and attempted to catalogue and identify all the organisms that we found. Lots of decomposers, scavenges, and the some of the predators that prey upon them were found. We used a short guide book to help identify some of the organisms. Here is a GoogleDoc of that guide. We found fungi, termites, ants, slugs, snails, centipedes, millipedes, spiders, worms, beetles and beetle larvae, springtails, crickets, and a salamander.