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Because humus is dead stuff decomposed. It gives lots of nutrients to plants who need them. So, the forest floor has lots of dead stuff right? There is probably lots of banana slugs and worms cause they don't need sunlight anyways back to the subject these decomposers decompose and mixes all the dead stuff with the soil and WALLAH there is humus!

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