Decomposers is an English word. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Decomposers in a sentence
Decomposers meaning
plural of decomposer
Using Decomposers
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of decomposer
Context around Decomposers
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 1 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Decomposers
- In this selection, "decomposers" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fauna, main, matter, release and themselves stand out and add context to how "decomposers" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include available to decomposers and the and detritivores or decomposers. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "decomposers" sits close to words such as aad, aadhar and aaro, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with decomposers
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Species are broadly categorized as autotrophs (or primary producers ), heterotrophs (or consumers ), and Detritivores (or decomposers ). (16 words)
These decomposers themselves suffered heavy losses of species during the extinction, and are not considered a likely cause of the coal gap. (22 words)
However, decomposers like bacteria and fungi usually don’t have the biological hardware to break long plastic polymers back down into their individual building blocks. (25 words)
By breaking down dead organic matter, decomposers release carbon back to the atmosphere and facilitate nutrient cycling by converting nutrients stored in dead biomass back to a form that can be readily used by plants and other microbes. (38 words)
The rate of decomposition is governed by three sets of factors—the physical environment (temperature, moisture and soil properties), the quantity and quality of the dead material available to decomposers, and the nature of the microbial community itself. (38 words)
Moving beyond the distinction between the bright and dark sides of termites: Termites are amongst the main decomposers of matter in tropical ecosystems and have a positive impact on many services for humankind. (33 words)
Example sentences (7)
But the findings of this study support a long-suggested but largely overlooked hypothesis—that it is macro-fauna decomposers that dominate plant decomposition in deserts.
Moving beyond the distinction between the bright and dark sides of termites: Termites are amongst the main decomposers of matter in tropical ecosystems and have a positive impact on many services for humankind.
However, decomposers like bacteria and fungi usually don’t have the biological hardware to break long plastic polymers back down into their individual building blocks.
By breaking down dead organic matter, decomposers release carbon back to the atmosphere and facilitate nutrient cycling by converting nutrients stored in dead biomass back to a form that can be readily used by plants and other microbes.
Species are broadly categorized as autotrophs (or primary producers ), heterotrophs (or consumers ), and Detritivores (or decomposers ).
The rate of decomposition is governed by three sets of factors—the physical environment (temperature, moisture and soil properties), the quantity and quality of the dead material available to decomposers, and the nature of the microbial community itself.
These decomposers themselves suffered heavy losses of species during the extinction, and are not considered a likely cause of the coal gap.