At Coweeta, HWA infestations are expected to lead to hemlock trees being replace

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At Coweeta, HWA infestations are expected to lead to hemlock trees being replaced by either tulip poplar or rhododendron. As you learned previously, this shift will affect litter quality. Let's say you sampled decomposer organisms from experimental plots dominated by poplar and plots dominated by rhododendron. Explain how classifying those decomposers by physical position in the litter and soil column might help predict differences in ecosystem function depending on which species replaces hemlock.

Explanation / Answer

Classification is aerobic and anaerobic

aerobic decomposer are decomposers that requires oxygen that in the form of SO4, NO2

anaerobic decomposers casuses fermentation of the plants

there can be facultative anerobes and facultative aerobes.

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