My soil is clay so it hinders the flow of nutrients and water through the environment. The nutrients rest mostly on top of the soil because it is so thick and nonporous and wash away with the first rain. Water soaks into the clay and keeps some the environment overly saturated with water. Some organisms in this area are clovers, maple trees, large ferns, tall grasses, and some small flowering vines. These organisms lend nutrients to the soil and may help keep the soil from remaining too moist by removing some of the water it retains with their roots. This soil is unlikely to be eroded because of its thick and heavy consistency. Its loss would result in a whole new arrangement of plant life better suited to the new soil. This in turn would change the animal life found in this area because the plants they feed on could no longer survive in the different type of soil. It would erode to the gully in the middle of the woods and its presence would create more plants in the area which is mostly barren now plant life akin to the plants found in the area where I found the soil. This would include vines and clovers as well as flowering ground covering plants. As an ecologist it is important to think about soil texture because it is an abiotic factor that plays an important part in the ecosystem it can affect the type of plant species that are able to grow in it which in turn affects the types of organisms able to survive in the environment.