Bacteria typically break down essential nutrients and return them to the soil. Sometimes fungi will break down essential nutrients and return them to the soil as well.
Detritivores decompose organic materials in an ecosystem and return the nutrients to the soil, air, and water.
Decomposers break down dead plants and animals. They return the nutrients to the soil.
Decomposers consume dead organisms and waste material. They then return nutrients and essential resources to the soil to be reused by the community.
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Decomposers
Decomposers
Nutrients are constantly being passed between organisms and the environment. This happens when decomposers break down the dead organisms putting it back in the soil.
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.They return nutrients to the soil, water, and air so cycles can begin again. .They are the only organisms that can introduce energy into an ecosystem.
Organisms in theground consume organic matter and deposit the remnants as nutrients and minerals in the soil in a form that plant life can more easily absorb. Larger organisms, like small animals, burrow in the soil which increases the airiness of the soil.