food web starting with sun and pointing to grasshopper and squirrel; grasshopper pointing to squirrel, wolf, and snake; squirrel pointing to wolf, snake, and bird; wolf pointing to decomposition with worms and mushrooms; snake pointing to wolf and decomposition with worms and mushrooms; bird pointing to decomposition with worms and mushrooms; decomposition pointing to the sun stating soil nutrients.

if we removed the decomposers from this food web, how would it affect the balance of the ecosystem?

there would be an increase in dead matter and a lack of nutrients in the soil.
there would be a decrease in dead matter and a lack of nutrients in the soil.
there would be an increase in dead matter and an increase in nutrients in the soil.
there would be a decrease in dead matter and an increase in nutrients in the soil.