Food Chain Examples With Decomposers

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Food chain examples with decomposers. Decomposers are also called detritivores. Each of these organisms in a food chain is called a link. Afterwards, it can be recycled to be part of the food chain again.

For an environment to remain healthy, the food chain must remain unbroken. Those species that are responsible for the remains of the other links become part of the soil. The term food chain refers to the sequence of events in an ecosystem, where one organism eats another and then is eaten by another organism.

The detritus food chain includes different species of organisms and plants like algae, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, mites, insects, worms and so on. Producer consumer decomposer, they devour dead decomposer animal’s carcasses, decaying plant material and waste items from other individuals from the ecosystem. Fungi that feeds off the byproducts of the ponderosa pine tree.

The grass, deer and tiger form a food chain (figure 8.2). Food chain is the simplest form of food web. In our example above, there is more grass than zebras, and more zebras than lions.

So let’s go through all the links if the food web one step at a time starting with plants. Each of these creatures occupies a unique position on the food web, or trophic web, which is composed of producers, consumers, and decomposers. Insects that feed on dying and dead trees.

There are usually three or four organisms in a food chain: In this example of a predator food chain, the phytoplankton is primarily responsible for the production of food (or organic matter) through photosynthesis. They eat dead plants and animals in a process called 'decomposition'.