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Are detritus producers?
detritus feeders can not be producers as they feed of the decaying dead living organisms
What is a detritivore living in the arctic?
Organisms that feed on decaying material,debris, or detritus, such as bacteria, insects, worms etc.
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 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/
What plant and animal remains and other dead matter are collectively called?
Detritus Detritus. It's what the decomposers feed on/eat.
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.
Where do the detritus get their energy?
detritvores feed on large bits of dead and decaying plants and animald
What are plant and animal remains and other dead matter collectively called?
Detritus Detritus. It's what the decomposers feed on/eat.
What are organisms that feed directly on detritus?
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.
