Detritivores (also known as detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders or detritus eaters) are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus...
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to plants or life forms (-phyte, -obe) produce various terms, such as detritivore, detritophage, saprotroph, saprophyte, saprophage, and saprobe; their...
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granivores, nectarivores, algivores, etc.), omnivores, fungivores, scavengers/detritivores, and parasites. Interactions between animals of each biome form complex...
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insects had occupied their main modern ecological niches as herbivores, detritivores and insectivores. Social termites and ants first appear in the Early...
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Asia, the wels catfish of Eurasia, and the piraĆba of South America, to detritivores (species that eat dead material on the bottom), and even to a tiny parasitic...
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restricted to carnivorous species: it also occurs in herbivores and in detritivores.[vague] Sexual cannibalism normally involves the consumption of the male...
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and development. While the terms decomposer and detritivore are often interchangeably used, detritivores ingest and digest dead matter internally, while...
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Phagocytosis Myzocytosis Others Microbivory Bacterivore Fungivore Coprophagia Detritivore Geophagia Omnivore Planktivore Saprophagy Xenophagy Lithotroph Plastivore...
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Beetle genera were mainly saprophages (detritivores) in the Permian and Triassic. During the Jurassic, herbivorous and then carnivorous genera became more...
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ending at an apex predator (such as grizzly bears or killer whales), detritivore (such as earthworms and woodlice), or decomposer (such as fungi or bacteria)...
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