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What would happen to an ecosystem if the decomposers disappeared?

Slindoh

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What would happen to an ecosystem if the decomposers disappeared?

Could there be a food chain without herbivores and carnivores?

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rsb

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9 years ago

Indeed there can.

Explained here: [Solved] Could there be a food chain without herbivores and carnivores?

wizarddim

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9 years ago

There can be a short food chain without carnivores included - such as an elephant or rhinoceros feeding on vegetation, and having no natural enemies that feed on it. But you can't have a food chain including carnivores and not herbivores.

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