For the decomposers I found slugs ... If all of the top predators leaves or dies, such as herons in a pond ecosystem, there will be an increase in the number of smaller animals, such as fish ...

Although natural ponds differ from the mesocosms in ... grazers in turn consume phytoplankton, periphyton, and decomposers. The ecosystem response variables also included ecosystem productivity ...

They found that ponds with fish produce fewer larval ... Herbivores in terrestrial ecosystems are less abundant but decomposers are much more abundant than in phytoplankton dominated aquatic ...

Patrice looks at the important role decomposers and scavengers play in the natural world. Patrice looks at the important role decomposers and scavengers play in the natural world. She then visits ...

I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. Decomposer fungi are central to breaking down dead material across ecosystems. As they do so, they move carbon in the soil back into the ...

“[Soil fungi] are the recyclers of the ecosystem — the primary decomposers of wood, leaves, and other plant material,” co-author Serita Frey of the University of New Hampshire ...