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Detritivore
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Detritivores (also known as detrivores or detritus feeders) are animals and plants that consume detritus (decomposing organic material), and in doing so contribute to decomposition and the recycling of nutrients.
By consuming dead organic matter they speed up decomposition by increasing the surface area available to detritvoric bacteria.
Groups of detritivorous animals include millipedes, woodlice, dung flies, many terrestrial worms and burying beetles.
In detritivory term, from Wetzel (2001) wrote, the intake of non-living particulate organic matter and the microorganisms associated with it.
Most detritivores live in mature woodland.
1. Wetzel, R. G. 2001. Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems. Academic Press. 3rd. p.700.