What are examples of freshwater decomposers?

What are decomposers and some examples?

• Answer:

  Decomposers are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms, and in doing so carry out the natural process of decomposition. Decomposers break down (or consume) leaf litter, dead organisms and other detritus. In doing this they release nutrients trapped in the dead material back into the soil, making it available to plants and other primary producers, continuing the nutrient cycle of an ecosystem. General catagories of decomposers are: worms molds fungi (the primary and common decomposers of litter in many ecosystems) bacteria Specific decomposers are: mushrooms termites flies (& maggots) cockroaches lactobacteria (for mozzarella cheese and frozen yogurt) beetle slug insects