Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Detritivore

These are mushrooms. Mushrooms are an example of a detritivore. Detritivores are heterotrophs that feed off of other dead organisms. Detritivores consume decaying plant and animal parts, as well as fecal matter. They play an important role in our environment because they find a use for decaying matter that would otherwise take up space. Detrivores are at the bottom of the trophic pyramid because they do not survive from photosynthesis and they are not mobile.
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