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- noun Plural form of
detritivore .
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Examples
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The environmental consequences of this debris are not known, but when kept in aquaria amphipods (detritivores), lugworms (deposit feeders), and barnacles (filter feeders) all ingested microscopic particles within a few days.
Lisa Kaas Boyle: Did You Just Eat a Plastic Bag? How Plastic Pollution Has Entered Our Food Chain Lisa Kaas Boyle 2011
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Most crustaceans are carnivores or scavengers, though herbivores and detritivores are also common, and some crustacean groups (e.g., the bopyrid idopods) are parasites hardly recognizable as crustaceans.
Crustacea 2008
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Most larvae are herbivores or detritivores, but some larger species are carnivores.
Insecta (Aquatic) 2008
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They occur on rich alluvial soils, maintain moderate climates and microhabitats that provide seasonal refugia for many species, maintain an abundance of arthropods and mast from canopy species to sustain overwintering migratory birds, and offer abundant rotting logs, bole, and branch cavities for detritivores and hole-nesting species, respectively.
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Most crustaceans are carnivores or scavengers, though herbivores and detritivores are not uncommon.
Arthropoda 2007
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Earthworms are a good example of soil-dwelling detritivores
WN.com - Articles related to Food Addiction 101: What are the symptoms of food addiction? 2010
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Most crustaceans are carnivores or scavengers, though herbivores and detritivores are also common, and some crustacean groups (e.g., the bopyrid idopods) are parasites hardly recognizable as crustaceans.
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Fungi are the ideal recycling machines - they decompose dead organic material and convert it into nutritious humus, and together with bacteria they are nature's most important detritivores.
R&D Mag - News 2010
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Fungi are the ideal recycling machines - they decompose dead organic material and convert it into nutritious humus, and together with bacteria they are nature's most important detritivores.
innovations-report 2010
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Even if the body goes untouched by larger scavengers, detritivores like insects, fungi, and bacteria will still break the animal's body down.
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