Question

What is a food web? What happens if decomposers are removed from the food web?

Answer 1

Food webs are interconnected food chains.

• If decomposers are removed from the food web then the biological cycles are not completed.

• If the decomposers are not present in an ecosystem, the remains of the other organisms accumulate. This leads to imbalance in the ecosystem as the nutrients are not recycled to the source to be utilised by the producers.