How does fungi help the environment?

Answer 1

Fungi help the environment by eating bad or harmful bacteria and by protecting the good or harmless bacteria.

Fungi are heterotrohic organisms with thick chitin wall. Fungi finds a place in fermentation technology, antibiotic production, production of enzymes used in genetic engineering and other processes, bioactive production etc. Apart from these beneficial uses the fungi also produces many diseases and cause both animal and plant loss.

Answer 2

Fungi contribute to the ecosystem because they serve as decomposers and symbionts. Fungi keep nutrients for plants in the ecosystem instead of being locked in organic matter. Decomposers free elements essential to life like carbon and nitrogen. Plants and animals would be severely inhibited and starve because these element would not be recycled back to the environment.

Answer 3

The role of a fungus in an ecosystem is usually decomposing: breaking down the dead matter of other organisms. Fungi may also be symbionts and have relationships with other organisms e.g. lichen.

Answer 4

Fungi decompose dead matter and release nutrients back into the soil for plants to use.

Answer 5

It acts as a decomposer, to help extract nutrients from dead animals for other organisms' uses.

Answer 6

Decomposition of carbon compounds that otherwise would not be broken down into usable form.

Answer 7

Fungi are the recyclers. They gather on the remains of dead plants and animals are recycle the nutrients back into the ecosystem.

Answer 8

They are decomposers .