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Detritivores are not harmful to an ecosystem but they are important since they break down decomposing matter from a macroscopic scale into even smaller molecular scale that can be handled by bacteria and plants etc.
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How do organisms in an ecosystem depend on detritivores?
Detritivores decompose organic materials in an ecosystem and return the nutrients to the soil, air, and water.
Do detritivores return energy to an ecosystem?
They only return the minerals to the ecosystem.
What are the detritivores in the savannah?
Detritivores work to break down and decompose dead plant, animal and waste materials, before releasing them out into the ecosystem in the form of energy and nutrients. Detritivores consist of bacteria, fungi, earthworms, dung beetles and termites in the African savannah.
How is the anemone both helpful and harmful to members of its ecosystem?
If they are ecosystem?
Can organisms adapt to harmful changes in there ecosystem?
agree
How do organisms in an ecosystem depend on detritivores?
Detritivores decompose organic materials in an ecosystem and return the nutrients to the soil, air, and water.
Do detritivores return energy to an ecosystem?
They only return the minerals to the ecosystem.
What are the detritivores in the savannah?
Detritivores work to break down and decompose dead plant, animal and waste materials, before releasing them out into the ecosystem in the form of energy and nutrients. Detritivores consist of bacteria, fungi, earthworms, dung beetles and termites in the African savannah.
How does pollutant harmful to the ecosystem?
how dose the pollutant hamrful to the ecosystem
How is the anemone both helpful and harmful to members of its ecosystem?
If they are ecosystem?
How does a heterotorph differ from an autotroph?
They differ in one fundamental way:Autotrophs fix their own energy. (They are the producers of the ecosystem.)Heterotrophs must get their energy from other sources. (They are the consumers, detritivores, or decomposers of the ecosystem.)
Are snakes detritivores?
No: they are predators and scavengers, but not detritivores.
Is it detritivores or detrivores?
The word is 'detritivores'.
Can organisms adapt to harmful changes in there ecosystem?
agree
Are turkey vultures detritivores?
Eagles are not detritivores
What is a sentence using the word detritivores?
The detritivores have already begun feeding on this corpse. Detritivores contribute to decomposition.
Are seeds detrivores?
Seeds are not detritivores
