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Detritivores, also known as detritophages or detritus feeders or detritus eaters or saprophages, are heterotrophsthat obtain nutrients by consuming detritus (decomposing plant and animal parts as well as organic fecal matter). By doing so, they contribute to decomposition and the nutrient cycles. They should be distinguished from other decomposers, such as many species of bacteria, fungi and protists, which are unable to ingest discrete lumps of matter, but instead live by and metabolizing on a molecular scale.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 9y agoDetritus consists of decomposing plant and animal matter. Organisms that eat detritus include millipedes, earthworms, types of beetles, and fungi.
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∙ 15y agoDetritivores. A few examples are: earthworms, termites, slugs, bacteria, and fungi.
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∙ 13y agodecomposers i guess..or is it detritivores
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∙ 9y agoThe word organism is a noun - you cannot organism. Please ask your question again using correct grammar so that we can understand what you need to know.
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∙ 9y agoThe organism which consume detritus are called detritivores e.g., earthworm.
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Is decaying plant matter good for plant?
Decayed plant matter is often called detritus. Organisms that feed on detritus are worms, termites, ants, snails, fungi, and millipedes.
Where does Eubacteria get its energy from?
it feed off of dead organisms!
What are detritus and carrion?
Detritus is the same as refuse or rubish. Carrion is dead animals that are rotting on the ground.
A major group of organisms that are in general multicellular capable of locomotion and responsive to their environment and feed by consuming other organisms?
Animal
What are organisms that feed on dead organisms?
Many kinds of organisms live by feeding on dead bodies. In the process, their activities result in the decomposition of the body and the recycling of nutrients. The dominant groups of organisms involved in decomposition are bacteria, flies, beetles, mites and moths. Other animals, mainly parasitoid wasps, predatory beetles and predatory flies, feed on the animals that feed on the corpse. A dead body is therefore an ecosystem of its own, in which different fauna arrive and depart from the corpse at different times. The arrival time and growth rates of insects inhabiting corpses are used by forensic scientists to determine the circumstances surrounding suspicious deaths.
Are detritus producers?
detritus feeders can not be producers as they feed of the decaying dead living organisms
What organisms feed on the detritus found in wetlands?
birds
What is a detritivore living in the arctic?
Organisms that feed on decaying material,debris, or detritus, such as bacteria, insects, worms etc.
What do deep ocean benthic organisms most often feed on?
dead plants and animals that drift from the surface
What is the job of detritus feeders?
Detritus feeders feed on waste and/or dead bodies of other organisms.
What is detritus feeding?
When these detritus feeders take in detritus with micro-organisms multiplying on it, they mainly break down and absorb the micro-organisms, which are rich in proteins, and excrete the detritus, which is mostly complex carbohydrates, having hardly broken it down at all.Detritus feeders contribute to the carbon cycle through respiration by taking up carbon and converting some of it to CO2 which is to be used by plants to produce carbohydrates.
Plant and animal remains and other dead matter are collectvely called?
Detritus. It's what the decomposers feed on/eat/
Is decaying plant matter good for plant?
Decayed plant matter is often called detritus. Organisms that feed on detritus are worms, termites, ants, snails, fungi, and millipedes.
What plant and animal remains and other dead matter are collectively called?
Detritus Detritus. It's what the decomposers feed on/eat.
What is the process of detrifying?
The breakdown of organisms into large pieces of organic matter (detritus)
What eats fallen leaves?
Fallen leaves are considered to be detritus. Organisms that eat detritus include snails, millipedes, worms, termites, ants, bacteria, and fungi.
What does fungi feed upon?
Detritus. Dead organic matter mostly, still one's bread, the province of ryzopus, might not be considered dead in the detritus sense.
