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What is a decomposer?

What is a decomposer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (ecology) Any organism that feeds off decomposing organic material, especially bacterium or fungi.
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Students can try to classify the organisms observed in their outing to a local habitat, using the terms producer, consumer, and decomposer.
Analysis of the development of the decomposer food-web, trophic relationships, and ecosystem properties during a three-year primary succession in sawdust.
Hundreds of California species either feed directly upon the e decomposer fungi, or predate the fungivorous taxa.
Disentangling the mechanisms underlying functional differences among decomposer communities.
It led her to buy the intellectual property rights to the food waste decomposer and the company's Singapore units.
The cycling of materials such as carbon, water, and other nutrients is mainly dependent upon soil-dwelling decomposer organisms such as bacteria fungi.

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