How would loss of fungi in a forest effect biogeochemical cycles in the area? a. Nitrogen could no longer be fixed into organic molecules.

b. Phosphorus stores would be released for use by other organisms.

c. Sulfur release from eroding rocks would cease.

d. Carbon would accumulate in dead organic matter and waste.

Biogeochemical cycle

• cycling of mineral nutrients through ecosystems and through the nonliving world. A biogeochemical cycle is the pathway by which a chemical substance cycles the biotic and the abiotic compartments of Earth.

(d) Carbon would accumulate in dead organic matter and waste.

• Fungi are master decomposers that keep forests alive.

• Without fungi to aid in decomposition, all life in the forest would be buried under a mountain of dead plant matter.

• When there is a loss of fungi in a forest then Carbon would accumulate in dead organic matter and waste.

a. Nitrogen could no longer be fixed into organic molecules.

• The absence of this important source of nitrogen would probably cause disease and death among plants, which would lead to declines in animal populations.
• When there is a loss of fungi in a forest then Carbon would accumulate in dead organic matter and waste. Hence this option is not correct.

b. Phosphorus stores would be released for use by other organisms.

• When there is a loss of fungi in a forest, then Carbon would accumulate in dead organic matter and waste. Not Phosphorus stores would be released for use by other organisms. Hence this option is not correct.

c. Sulfur release from eroding rocks would cease.

• When there is a loss of fungi in a forest, then Carbon would accumulate in dead organic matter and waste. Not Sulfur release from eroding rocks would cease. Hence this option is not correct.