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Give me a example of a decomposer. Explain what would happen if decomposers were absent from a forest ecosystem

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Some examples of decomposers include bacteria, fungi, and some insects. If decomposers disappeared from a forest ecosystem, wastes as well as the remains of the dead organisms would pile up, and producers (plants) would not have enough nutrients.
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