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Decomposer microbesThe Conversation
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You might assume that your microbes die with you once your body breaks down and your microbes are flushed into the environment, they won’t survive out in the real world.
Your microbes are adapted to the stable, warm environment inside your body where they receive a steady supply of food.
But soil is a particularly harsh place to live it’s a highly variable environment with steep chemical and physical gradients.
In terrestrial ecosystems, decomposition of dead animals fuels biodiversity and is an important link in food webs.
Living animals are a bottleneck for the carbon and nutrient cycles of an ecosystem.
Decomposer microbes convert concentrated pools of nutrient-rich organic molecules from our bodies into smaller, more bioavailable forms that other organisms can use to support new life.
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