Nutrient cycle

The nutrient cycle us important to help things by recycling nutrients for other living things to grow.

Decomposers get their energy by digesting wastes such as urube and the bodies of dead plants and animals

Nitrogen, water & iron are nutrients that are cyckee and used by living things

When consumers and producers die, decomposers return nutrients to the environment

Photosynthesis and cellular respiration play an important part in cycling matter like carbon and oxygen

Organisms release carbon into the environment during cellular respiration

Human activity like burning fossil fuels and clearing trees from land contribute to global warming

Algal bloom is caused by too much of a nutrient, like nitrogen, entering the aquatic environment

Oxygen and carbon dioxide
Photosynthesis: light energy + carbon dioxide + water > glucose + oxygen
Cellular respiration: glucose + oxygen > carbon dioxide + water vapour + usable energy.

Removing all decomposers from an ecosystem would stop part of the cycle (returning nutrients) which would effect the rest of the cycle (lack of nutrients), eventually ending it.