Yes, bacteria can be a decomposer, as there are many strains of bacteria that consume dead material.

Natural resources in tropical grasslands include water, lumber, and livestock. Resources in the temperate grasslands include wheat, coal, oil, corn, livestock, gas, and oats. Water and timber are two primary resources that one can find in the chaparral.

Nature has its own recycling system: a group of organisms called decomposers. Decomposers feed on dead things: dead plant materials such as leaf litter and wood, animal carcasses, and feces.

A producer is a living thing that makes its own food from sunlight, air, and soil. Green plants are producers who make food in their leaves. A decomposer is a living thing that gets energy by breaking down dead plants and animals, Fungi and bacteria are the most common decomposers.

The answer is no. Humans are consumers. Decomposers are the ones which feed on the dead and decaying matter of plants and animals. …

Detritivores are organisms that eat nonliving plant and animal remains. For example, scavengers such as vultures eat dead animals. Dung beetles eat animal feces. Decomposers like fungi and bacteria complete the food chain.

Decomposers can recycle dead plants and animals into chemical nutrients such as carbon and nitrogen that are released back into the soil, air and water as food for living plants and animals. So, decomposers can recycle dead plants and animals and help keep the flow of nutrients available in the environment.

Decomposers break down the dead remains of plants and animals and release the nutrients such as carbon, nitrogen etc. into the environment. In the absence of decomposers in the environment, this breakdown will not occur and hence, the nutrients will not be released.

What would happen if there were no decomposers? Decomposers keep dead matter from “piling up” and restore nutrients to the ecosystem. If there were no decomposers, some plants might die due to a shortage of important nutrients.

Unlike matter, energy does not cycle through the ecosystem. Food chain and food web diagrams do not always show the decomposers. However, although an ecosystem can exist without consumers, no ecosystem can survive without producers and decomposers.

Explanation: Without decomposers, life cannot exist. Producers produce oxygen and food (to consumers) and they need organic and inorganic materials, water, air, carbon dioxide, etc. All organic (or decomposed) materials are produced by decomposers.

Imagine what would happen if there were no decomposers. Wastes and the remains of dead organisms would pile up and the nutrients within the waste and dead organisms would not be released back into the ecosystem. Producers would not have enough nutrients. Essentially, many organisms could not exist.