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play an important role in an ecosystem, breaking down dead organisms and recycling the nutrients.

Decomposers

Producers

Heterotrophs

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Decomposers play an important role in an ecosystem, breaking down dead organisms and recycling the nutrients.
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Decomposers get nutrients and energy by breaking down dead organisms and animal wastes. Through this process, decomposers releasenutrients, such as carbon and nitrogen, back into the environment. These nutrientsare recycled back into the ecosystem so that the producers can use them.
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