Resource quantity and quality are fundamental bottom-up constraints on consumers. Best understood in autotroph-based systems, co-occurrence of these constraints may be common but remains poorly ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The fast-moving decline and extinction of many species of detritivores -- organisms that break down and remove dead plant and animal matter -- may have dire consequences, an ...
https://doi.org/10.1899/08-131.1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1899/08-131.1 AbstractDetritus processing, the breaking down of organic matter into smaller particles ...
The translucent Enypniastes eximia, nicknamed the 'headless chicken monster,' navigates the deep sea with fin-like appendages. This detritivore feeds on marine snow, aiding ocean floor health, and ...
The photographs of aquatic detritivores in this graphic represent a subset of families (ordered left to right from the most to the least abundant in the study). All over the world, detritivore ...
The fast-moving decline and extinction of many species of detritivores -- organisms that break down and remove dead plant and animal matter -- may have dire consequences, an international team of ...