Bacteria and fungi attack the dead plant or animal and start breaking it down as their food.
Saprophytes are plants and fungi that thrive on dead tissues of plants and animals. They play a vital role in decomposition by breaking down organic matter into nutrients that can be recycled in the ecosystem. Examples include mushrooms, mold, and some types of bacteria.
Dead animals and plants are broken down by decomposers such as bacteria, fungi, and insects. These organisms feed on the decaying matter, breaking it down into simpler substances that can be recycled back into the ecosystem.
Dead bodies, plants, etc. would build up in piles.Plants would run out of the organic nutrients that they need and can't make with photosynthesis and then die.When enough plants died the animals that ate them would starve. They would then die.When enough prey animals died the predator animals that ate them would starve. They would then die.Everything living would then die.But this is impossible as the decomposers (e.g. bacteria, fungi) that cause decay of dead things are only eating their "food" too. The more dead things lying around the more "food" they have and they would flourish.
Many decomposers such as bacteria, fungi, and insects feed on the dead remains of plants and animals. They break down the organic matter, returning essential nutrients back to the soil in a process called decomposition.
Decay is helpful mainly because it prevents the ecosystem from getting cluttered up with dead matter, and because decaying matter provides an environment for the development of living organisms.
Fungi and bacteria.
plant roots
That is the process of decay.
its true(:
decomposers are what breaks down dead plants and animals and cause them to decay quickly
They turn into the soil they become part of the ground.
yes
when plants die, they go through decomposition. types of decomposers are fungi and bacteria. they help to break dead plants into simpler substances like carbon dioxide, water and mineral salts. that is why plants decay.
plants and animals die and then decay to release carbon compound in then
For fact, I know that worms eat dead plants and animals.
vultures,halks but I'm not sure about dead plants lolz
Your face eats dead plants