Question

What are decomposers in a food web?

Answer 1

Decomposers:

1. Decomposers are organisms that tend to degrade the dead living organisms of an ecosystem.
2. Examples of decomposers are fungus, bacterium or invertebrates, etc.
3. They help in the energy flow of the ecosystem.
4. They lie at the last strata of the ecosystem.
5. They help in replenishing soil fertility via secreting digestive enzymes over dead plants and animals and returning important nutrients to the soil.