• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    plants and bacteria would struggle without animals and fungi as well, everything depends on like literally the entire earth’s ecosystems to survive to some degree.

    like fungi recycle dead things into an absurd amount of nutrients, without them trees especially would barely break down and just stick around until very very eventually they turn into coal.

    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Yes they would struggle, but eventually they would adapt.

      If everything but plants disappeared tomorrow, many plants would die but some would survive and adapt.

      If everything but fungi disappeared tomorrow, they would all die out.

      Same with animals.

      Bacteria would survive like plants would, with most of them dying but many surviving and adapting.