How to pronounce “decomposer” in English

Really, there are three different ways that fungi get their energy and work their environment to a benefit.And that is-- there are the decomposers.Those are the ones that eat the dead end decaying organic material.

where it could still live off the dead and decaying organic debris there at the edges.But in doing so, that really started the decomposer fungi getting out into the rock, around it, and decomposingand breaking down the rock.

Mushrooms are also an incredibly efficient way to grow food.As Jim touched on before, they're nature's decomposers.They grow on rotting materials.

The other weekend, they made $270 selling mushrooms down the end of our driveway, so it's kind of our version of the lemonade stand.One of the other really interesting things about mushrooms is in addition to being nature's decomposers and breaking down waste streams from other industries,they are an incredibly land-efficient way to grow food.

That the food webs that support our animals-- the amphibians, the reptiles, the birds, the mammals, even our freshwater fishes-- those food buds would collapse and those animalswould disappear. The biosphere, the living portion of the Earth, would rot because we would have lost insect decomposers that, right now, rapidly turnover nutrients. And all we would have is bacteria and fungi.

The agaricus bisporus, in nature, grows in rotting leaf matter.And you go for a walk in the forest, and you'll see a lot of mushrooms either growing on decomposing wood or in the leaf material in the forest.They're nature's decomposers. They help break down plants and other materials in the forest and return those nutrients back into the soil.