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Organic matter is what life is made of - this means that some of that life are producers and some are decomposers (and some are consumers).
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Why is fungus important to an ecosystem?
Why are decomposers such as fungi and bacteriaimportant to an ecosystem?
Are plants producers or decomposers?
They are producers.
Why bacteria are decomposers?
cause it brakes down organic matter :) hahaha isnt that hilariouse?
When decomposers break down organic matter does it then provide nutrition to plants?
Yes, exactly.
What are the similarities and differences between producers consumers and decomposers?
Producers create food through photosynthesis, whereas decomposers breakdown dead or decaying matter. Decomposers do not make their own food, and so are consumers.
What is the difference between producers and decomposers?
producers are plants that make food for themselves by photosynthesis and decomposers convert organic matter into inorganic materials.
Why do animals need decomposers?
Decomposers are essential to maintaining a health ecosystem. Animals are part of a natural cycle which moves energy and organic matter to all living organisms. The cycle flows from producers to consumers (animals and other heterotrophs) to decomposers. Decomposers break down dead organisms (plants, animals, etc) into basic organic matter. The organic matter then becomes the building blocks for producers such as plants, phytoplankton and seaweed. Animals then eat these producers completing the cycle. Without decomposers the tissues of dead organisms would build up and the organic matter and nutrients within them would not be available to support new life, thus breaking the cycle.
Are fungi ever producers?
Fungi are not producers in any instance as they do not produce their own food. They are mainly decomposers as they eat dead organic matter mostly.
How decomposers help producers?
Decomposers release the nutrients locked up in organic matter. As plants (and other producers) grow, they take up nutrients from the environment and turn it into biomass. Decomposers break down biomass and release the nutrients back into the environment where they can be taken up again by producers.
What is the most important ecological role of bacteria?
Heterotrophic bacteria are some of the principle decomposers of organic matter.
How do decomposes help producers?
Decomposers release the nutrients locked up in organic matter. As plants (and other producers) grow, they take up nutrients from the environment and turn it into biomass. Decomposers break down biomass and release the nutrients back into the environment where they can be taken up again by producers.
Soil organisms that turn dead organic matter into humus?
Soil organisms that turn dead organic matter into humus are called decomposers.
Do decomposers eat plants?
Decomposers do not their own food. These animals are born to break down the wastes left by the animals around them.
Why are decomposers categorized as consumers. How do they differ from producers.?
Producers create food through photosynthesis, whereas decomposers breakdown dead or decaying matter. Decomposers do not make their own food, and so are consumers.
How do decomposers help an environment?
Decomposers speed the process of decay of organic matter, releasing nutrients from said matter into the atmosphere and soil to be taken up by plants (producers) which will then be eaten by consumers.
What causes the decay of non living organic matter?
decomposers
Is fungi and bacteria producers?
Fungi and bacteria are not producers, they are decomposers. A producer is an organism that makes its own food, such as plants through photosynthesis. Decomposers break down dead matter.
