Question

If we removed the decomposers from this food web, how would it affect the balance of the ecosystem? There would be an increase in dead matter and a lack of nutrients in the soil. There would be a decrease in dead matter and a lack of nutrients in the soil. There would be an increase in dead matter and an increase in nutrients in the soil. There would be a decrease in dead matter and an increase in nutrients in the soil..
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Answer 1

There would be an increase in dead matter and an increase in nutrients in the soil.

Answer 2

There would be an increase in dead matter and a lack of nutrients in the soil.

Decomposers break down dead matter, so without them there will be an increase.

They then return the nutrients from the dead matter to the soil, so there will be a lack of nutrients in the soil.

Examples of decomposers are mushrooms and earthworms.