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Dictionary » D » Detritivore DetritivoreDefinition noun, plural: detritivores An organism that feeds on detritus or organic waste.
Examples include millipedes, woodlice, dung flies, many terrestrial worms and burying beetles. By consuming dead organic matter they speed up decomposition by increasing the surface area available to detritivoric bacteria.
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Results from our forumRe: I hate to do this.... the quaternary consumer level Here the answer is "The producer level", as explained above. 10. In which trophic level would you find detritivores? within the producer level above the quaternary consumer level below the primary producer level at every trophic level In a food web or ...
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detritivore and decomposerok, simpler terms, one turns it into poop, the other turns it into simpler organic compounds. For example detritivore=vulture decomposer=bacteria Feel free to update the definitions on our dictionary if you think it would help others understand, it's a wiki after all :)
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Fungus?Check our dictionary detritivore- Animal that consumes decomposing organic particles, deriving nutrition primarily from microbes on the particles. And of course a decomposer is a dead musician :D:D:D
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Fungus?Hey...what's the differences between decomposer and detritivore?? and is fungus classified into detritivores or decomposers?
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