- nutrition from dead remains
Scavengers
- cleaning up of ecosystem
- eat left-overs of top carnivores
- don’t eat rotten food
- E.g.:
- hyena
- wild dogs
Detritivores
- dead remains to be decomposed
- feed on detritus
- left overs of Scavengers
Macro Detritivores
- Earthworm
- maggots
- wood lice
- termites
- ants
- centipede
Micro Detritivores
- bacteria
- fungi
- slime moulds