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Decomposers
This category covers questions about decomposers, organisms that break down other dead or decaying organisms to obtain energy for growth and development. Decomposers are formally known as saprotrophs.
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there are many decomposers like: bacteria, fungi, beetles, earthworms, milipedes, clams, freshwater shirmp, slug, bacteria in the air, and artic raven to name some decomposers
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Explain how fungi and bacteria are some decomposers in a desert?
Fungi and bacteria work by recycling dead organisms and putting their nutrients back in to the soil in the desert. They feed on the dead organism and help to keep the ecosystem balanced.
What are the diseases of vermiculture composting?
Vermiculture composting involves using worms to break down organic matter added to the compost. As such, there are no "diseases" in the compost.
However one source cautioned to not let dogs or cats use the compost pile for urination and defecation, since animal wastes *could* add harmful bacteria that can colonize in the heat and nutrient-rich environment of a compost pile.
What are the decomposers in the desert?
Decomposers that burrow in the sand and are found in the desert include worms and beetles. There are also millipedes.
Is moldy bread a producer or decomposer?
it is cletha it is a decomposer beacuase it can be use to help any type of plant grow
All living things, if left in nature, will eventually decompose or be consumed by insects. Some parts of organisms take much longer than others to decompose (e.g. bones). A few may be preserved geologically and retain their form (peat, amber).
That said, dead birds and animals should be buried, not composted.
All organic creatures will eventually decompose. Many mayflies are snapped up by freshwater fish as the mayfly emerges onto the water's surface, and before they have a chance to take to the air and breed.
Why your earth will become a waste bucket without saprotrophs?
our affcourse will bacame a waste basket without saprotrophs becase saprotrophs are the organisms wtcih lives on dead and decaying things for example a leather shoes picke;es and if saprotroph willbe not there so the earth will not get moisture thgat arrives from fungi and do not get saprotrophic nutrishient
Do decomposers break down the bodies of dead organisms and recycle the materials in the food web?
Yes, that is the effect of what decomposers do.
However they are only doing what every other organism does: eating to meet their nutritional needs! The eat the food they evolved to eat, which just happens to be dead organisms and the excrement of living organisms. Their dead bodies and excrement is then recycled to the food web and something else depends on that for its nutrition.
You do the same thing, but humans evolved to eat a mixture of plants and animals that we have killed. Our dead bodies and excrement become food to decomposers. Occasionally our bodies are eaten by predators in our environment. Thus we are recycled to the food web and something else depends on that for its nutrition.
From the research i have descovered, mushrooms are decomposers.
Fungi like mushrooms, mildew, mold and toadstools are not plants. They don't have chlorophyll so they can't make their own food. Fungi release enzymes that decompose dead plants and animals. Fungi absorb nutrients from the organisms they are decomposing! :D
Yes, bacteria is a decomposer. Any remains of a dead animal ( the died body) not eaten yet by a consumer, is broken down by bacteria ( the decomposer) and fungi that live in the soil.
Yes, bacteria is a decomposer because it eats wastes.
How are desert beetles decomposers?
While some beetles do carry on activities, such as burying dung, they are not decomposers. Bacteria and fungi are the decomposers. Beetles are simply the 'middleman.'
Which of the organisms in the leaf litter community is a decomposer?
Fungi is the decomposer in a
leaf litter community,
