Question
What will happen, if decomposers are eliminated completely from the earth surface? Write important points.
Solution
If the decomposers are eliminated from the earth's surface it will lead to the following conditions:
(i) Dead bodies of animals and plants and other dead organic matter will remain undecomposed.
(ii) After some time, the dead bodies of organisms will occupy the whole space available on this earth.
(iii) There will be no recycling of matter between biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem because all the matter will remain locked up in the dead bodies.
Thus existence of life on the earth will become impossible.
