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It is not difficult to imagine an ecosystem containing only two kinds of organisms — a producer and a decomposer. Each creature would reverse the over-all chemical activity of the other. Thus, each would live on the wastes of the other.
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Horwood, R.H. (1973). Consumers in the Ecosystem. In: Inquiry into Environmental Pollution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81517-3_4
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