This I found in the depths of the Tarkine wilderness in a Myrtle forest. In Tasmania, this is the classic cool temperate type of rainforest, easily destroyed by fire, as opposed to a wet sclerophyll forest which has a mix of Eucalypt species combined with a mixed rainforest understory. This comes about as a response to fire or logging. Sadly, this is also one of the best Tasmanian environments to find a high invertebrate population.
A pure rainforest is not particularly ecologically diverse, but rather wonderful. Happily looking for Collembola beneath enormous towering myrtles and tree ferns has to be one of the most wonderful times of my life so far!
In the forest where I was, it was a typical one, of Myrtle and Sassafras, tree ferns and that was pretty much it. Fire over millions of years, plus a glacial period 22,000 years ago has probably made many more typical tree species extinct.
It's a lot harder finding springtails in a real temperate rainforest, but if you do, it can often be some rather interesting ones, such as a beautiful, large, flattened Tasmanura species I found a few weeks ago, covered in tiny tubercles.
This Katianna species in the main photo and comments is actually common in both forests and grassland in Tasmania however!
a ranna – a dhasskrifa, lesranna ha treuskorra an ober
a gemyska – a aswiwa an ober
Yn-dann an ragselyow a syw:
askrifans – Res yw dhywgh ri askrifans gwiw, provia kevren dhe'n lecyans, ha meneges mar peu chanjyow gwrys. Hwi a yll gul hemma yn fordh resonus a vynnowgh, mes ny yllir y wul yn fordh a broffo synser an lecyans dh'agas skoodhya po agas devnydh.
ranna kehaval – Mar kwrewgh hwi chanjya, treusfurvya po drehevel war an ober ma, res yw dhywgh lesranna agas kevrohow yn-dann an keth lecyans hag an derowel, po lecyans kesplegadow.
An restren ma a's teves kedhlow keworransel, dres lycklod keworrys dhyworth an kamera bysyel po an skanyer devnydhys rag hy gwruthyl po hy bysya. Mars yw chanjys an restren dhyworth hy studh gwredhek, possybyl yw na veu nebes manylyon nowedhys.