Lessen impacts of flooding by absorbing water and reducing the speed at which flood waters flow. Upstream wetlands can serve to store flood waters temporarily and <span>release them slowly downstream.</span>
It is what makes plant stems, leaves, and branches so strong.
They compete for food, water and space
Decomposers eat dead remains of organisms that are quaternary consumer (no one eats them while alive). So, they break these down and therefore turn into nutrients in the soil for plants to use.
