saprophytes Organisms that obtain their nutrients from decaying plants and animals. Saprophytes are important in recycling organic material.
Some live as saprophytes, getting their nourishment from the surroundings (often having first digested it by secreting enzymes). They perform a crucial role in nature by decomposing dead organisms are releasing their nutrients for reuse by the living.
Saprophytes feed on dead or decaying material and are important nutrient recyclers. Symbiotic bacteria live within a host multicellular organism and contribute to the health of the host.
decomposition -- The breakdown of dead organic material by detrivores or saprophytes.
delta -- n. A low, nearly flat accumulation of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river or stream, commonly triangular or fan-shaped; deltaic- adj.
Consumers are herbivores, carnivores and omnivores
Decomposers are detritivores and saprophytes
Break down dead complex organic molecules into simple inorganic molecules ...
Plants that were once considered saprophytes, such as non-photosynthetic orchids and monotropes, are now known to be parasites on other plants.
are examples, but there are also flowering plants like the white Indian pipes of eastern US Temperate Broadleaf Deciduous Forests or the giant Rafflesia of the Indo-Malyasian formation of the Tropical Braodleaf Evergreen Forest that are saprophytes.
 See also: Fungi, Plant, Organ, Reproduction, Character
  
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