Question

Detritus food chains (DFC) begins with ___________.

Answer 1

Detritus food chains (DFC) begins with dead organic matter..

The detritus food chain is the type of food chain that ensures maximum utilization and minimum wastage of the available material. This food chain starts from the dead organic matter or other such wastes; further, this material is eaten by the animal, and later this animal gets eaten by another animal in the soil. The chain keeps on going until the organic matter is composed. This type of food chain is quite handy in fixation of inorganic nutrients and utilizing up to the maximum. Detritus food chain has the remains of detritus as the major source of energy, and this process gets completed by the subsoil organisms, which can either be macroscopic or microscopic. Unlike the grazing food chain, detritus food chain produces a large amount of energy to the atmosphere.