Earthworms are decomposers, meaning they break down organic matter into basic nutrients for the soil. They are also detritivores, meaning they eat dead organic matter, including feces.

That's where decomposers come in. Decomposers are organisms that break down and feed off of the waste and dead organisms within an ecosystem. Decomposers are nature's built-in recycling system.

Decomposers and scavengers play an integral part of the life cycle in the Montane Forest Life Zone. This coniferous-filled zone is located in the elevations of approximately 8,000 to 10,000 feet.

Banana slugs are fantastic decomposers because they eat a lot of materials discarded by other living beings in the leaf litter, such as dead plant materials and animal droppings.

Decomposer fungi are central to breaking down dead material across ecosystems, moving carbon from soils to the atmosphere. Under climate change, they are focused more on surviving than decomposing.

Nitrogen pollution can alter the way temperate forests function, a new study has found. Excess nitrogen from air pollution slows down decomposition of plant matter by soil fungi, which in turn ...

LUCKNOW: In a bid to curb incidents of stubble burning, the state government has set a target of distributing 17 lakh bio-decomposers in 2023-24 fiscal. This will be more than 28% of 2022-23 when ...