What is the role of producers in an ecosystem?
The University of Oregon’s online science glossary defines an ecosystem as “the complex of living organisms, their physical environment, and all their interrelationships in a particular unit of space.” An ecosystem is made up of producers, consumers and decomposers. These organisms form a tightly knit web, where each depends on the others to survive and thrive. The most important of these organisms are the producers, without whom the entire system would fail, and there would be no life.
