I cannot Find the exact answer to this Q anywhere!!
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What would happen to an ecosystem if there were no decomposers?
A. Producers would increase
B. Plant growth would increase
C. Consumers would increase
D. Plant growth would decreace

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I cannot Find the exact answer to this Q anywhere!!
Please help!  
What would happen to an ecosystem if there were no decomposers?
A.  Producers would increase
B.  Plant growth would increase
C.  Consumers would increase
D.  Plant growth would decreace

anonymous · Answer

I know that there  would be waste everywhere but how would it affect the food web?
The only answer I could find had to do with waste being everywhere.

blues · Answer

Decomposers turn waste into nutrients which can be reused by producers. So if there were no decomposers, two things would happen: on one side of the balance, there would be waste everywhere because no waste was recycled, and on the other side of the balance...? How would not having decomposers and the nutrients they recycle affect producers?

anonymous · Answer

I thought that plants only got the nutrients they needed from the sun and rain, not the nutrients in the soil??

blues · Answer

Plants get all sorts of nutrients from the soil and from other producers (like bateria and fungi) in the soil. Examples would be any molecule containing nitrogen, phosphorous, sulfer or any other trace element that plants need.

anonymous · Answer

ok, would it be D?

blues · Answer

Yes, I think it certainly is D.

anonymous · Answer

Thanl you for the explanation, it helped a lot! :)

blues · Answer

Sure, you're welcome! :D