Organism that obtains nutrients by consuming detritus.
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Examples for "detrivore"
Examples for "detrivore"
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These include a sluglike detritus feeder, whose ancestors escaped predators by crawling down holes: this unlikely beast is our prototribble.
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Season well with a few plant parasites, animal parasites, detritus feeders, and other creatures.
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The prototribble, being a detritus -eater, thrived on this diet.
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Predators on average were enriched in 15N by 3.5 per thousand compared to detritivores.
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Overall, the results suggest that free-living bacterial-feeding nematodes form important prey for soil microarthropods including those previously assumed to live as detritivores.
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We investigated if the commonly used aggregation of organisms into trophic guilds, such as detritivores and predators, in fact represent distinct trophic levels.
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Recent studies using molecular gut content analyses suggest that nematodes form major prey of soil microarthropods including those previously assumed to live as detritivores.
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Microarthropods are of two kinds-the detritivores that feed on the litter attacked by the microbes and fungi and the predators that feed on the detritivores.
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