Decomposers such as bacteria, fungi, and insects break down dead plants and animals. The decaying organisms add nutrients to the soil that are essential for plant growth, bringing things full cycle. Climate An ecosystem relies on a stable and predictable climate for breeding, food production, and...
Answer to: Discuss how an organism (or population) in an ecosystem might be affected by the following abiotic factor: Oxygen concentration. By...
How does digestion take place in an amoeba? How do decomposers obtain food energy? How do diffusion and osmosis help amoebas survive? How do autotrophs get energy nutrients? What is an amoeba energy source? How do monerans get their food energy?
Decomposers are fungi and bacteria that secrete enzymes outside their bodies, where they digest the wastes and dead bodies of other organisms. The decomposers absorb some of the resulting nutrients; the rest remain in the environment. Both groups are important to ecosystems because they release the...
Analyze the different participants in food chains.Food chainsinvolve producers, consumers and decomposers. Without the producers, the consumers would not be able to obtain their food. Without the consumers, the decomposers would not be able to return the nutrients to the ecosystem. Without the decom...
1. Introduction 2. Sources and pathways of plastic pollution in the marine environment 3. Plastic contamination in the marine food web 4. Trophic transfers 5. Conclusion & future research Author statement Declaration of competing interest Acknowledgments Data availability ReferencesShow full outlineCited...
How do decomposers interact with their ecosystem? How does pollination take place? How does soil affect biome distribution? How does chromatography work? Why do the alveoli create a large surface area? How does soil moisture evaporate? How does humidity affect particulate matter? What is the impor...
(ca.1500-ca.600B.C.), when the Sahara probably resembled the dry grasslands of western Texas or the sub-Saharan savanna in Africa today. By about 600B.C., however, the climate had become so severe, the water supply so limited, and the ecosystem so depleted of supporting...
howdoecosystemswork 系统标签: ecosystemscarbonnitrogenworkdetritusnutrients HowdoEcosystemswork? •Definitionofecosystem •Livingandnon-livinginteractions •Energyflow •Whataboutnutrients? •Onanindexcarddefinenutrients? Nutrients •Substancethatanorganismmustobtain fromitssurroundingsforgrowthandthe sustainme...
As always, however, it’s not all that simple. When we find fungal endophytes inside healthy plants, some may be latent decomposers or pathogens – in other words, they are in a dormant state, waiting for the plant to die so that they can decay it, or for an o...