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A producer is also called an autotroph because it can make its own food and energy. Then there are the consumers which are also called heterotrophs because they cannot make their own food and get their energy from eating others. A detritivore breaks down decaying matter and recycles the organic matter back to inorganic nutrients in ecosystems. Saprotroph is another name given to decomposers. Detritivores are made up of decomposers and detritus feeders. Decomposers will return the nutrients while detritus feeders just acquire nutrients from dead animals/plants or waste products but don’t return the nutrients to the environment. Also, herbivores are animals that eat plants only, omnivores are animals that eat both plants and other animals and carnivores are animals that eat other animals only.