Horse feces and straw are forms of detritus, and are used as manure.
In biology, detritus (/dɪˈtraɪtəs/) or (/dɛˈtrɪtəs/) is dead particulate organic material, as distinguished from dissolved organic material. Detritus typically includes the bodies or fragments of bodies of dead organisms, and fecal material. Detritus typically hosts communities of microorganisms that colonize and decompose (i.e., remineralize) it. In terrestrial ecosystems it is present as leaf litter and other organic matter that is intermixed with soil, which is denominated "soil organic matter". The detritus of aquatic ecosystems is organic substances that is suspended in the water and accumulates in depositions on the floor of the body of water; when this floor is a seabed, such a deposition is denominated "marine snow".
biology, detritus (/dɪˈtraɪtəs/) or (/dɛˈtrɪtəs/) is dead particulate organic material, as distinguished from dissolved organic material. Detritus typically...
detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders or detritus eaters) are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus (decomposing plant and animal...
and marine ecosystems. In freshwater aquaria they may be referred to as detritus worms. These worms can vary in size, from centimeters to millimeters, depending...
The Namib Desert dune ant (Camponotus detritus), is a large ant species distinguished by white and black symmetrical stripes and markings on its hairy...
Bassareus detritus is a species of case-bearing leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in North America. "Bassareus detritus Species Information"...
made based on macroscopic swallowing of detritus (as an earthworm does) versus microscopic lysis of detritus (as a mushroom does). As matter decomposes...
and may be composed of geological detritus (minerals) or biological detritus (organic matter). The geological detritus originated from weathering and erosion...
Crayfish feed on animals and plants, either living or decomposing, and detritus. The term "crayfish" is applied to saltwater species in some countries...
is the organic matter component of soil, consisting of plant and animal detritus at various stages of decomposition, cells and tissues of soil microbes...
Rehbachiella. They are mostly small, freshwater animals that feed on plankton and detritus. Members of the Branchiopoda are unified by the presence of gills on many...
forces behind their evolution. Land plants were so successful that their detritus caused an ecological crisis in the Late Devonian, until the evolution of...
are part of a detritus-based trophic system (a bird that feeds both on herbivorous grasshoppers and earthworms, which consume detritus). Real systems...
there are no promontories other than reefs and islets composed of reef detritus" or "in an exclusively morphological sense, [as] a ring-shaped ribbon reef...
with its own fertilizer. Organisms that subsist on dead organic matter or detritus are known as detritivores, and play an important role in ecosystems by...
detritus. In stream communities, few groups of animals became extinct. Stream communities rely less on food from living plants and more on detritus that...
This lack of features is an adaptation to food such as carrion, decaying detritus, or host tissues surrounding endoparasites. Nematoceran larvae generally...
production of sponge detritus, as shown in the diagram. Several sponge species are able to convert coral-derived DOM into sponge detritus, and transfer organic...
resembling that of Myrmeleon structurally, makes no pitfall trap, but hides in detritus in a hole in a tree and seizes passing prey. In Japan, Gatzara jezoensis...
equipped with labial palps (two on each side of the mouth) to collect the detritus from its mucus. The cephalic molluscs have two pairs of main nerve cords...
moths in the Tineidae, Gelechiidae, and Noctuidae, besides others, feed on detritus, or dead organic material, such as fallen leaves and fruit, fungi, and...
apprehended by two aliens who drag him down corridors full of terrestrial detritus such as shoes and keys before arriving in a examination chamber. The aliens...
is commensal with the European hornet, living much of its life in the detritus of the nest. The nest is composed of a paper-pulp mixture created by female...
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