Species Cards

Decomposer

Group:

Fungus

This slime mould is a decomposer. Erica 
Bower

© Erica Bower

This slime mould is a decomposer

Food chain :

Decomposer

What it eats :

Dead things, including wood and other dead plant matter.

Eaten by:

Habitat:

Woodland; Wildflower GrasslandWoodland; Wildflower Grassland

Description:

Decomposers are the organisms that rot plant and animal materials and return it to the soil to be used again. They are nature's recyclers. Fungi are decomposers.


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