Detritus Breakdown is a microbial process in which complex organic matter from dead organisms and waste is enzymatically degraded into simpler compounds, distinguishing it from abiotic decomposition by its reliance on microbial metabolic activity to initiate and drive the disintegration of refractory biopolymers in soil and aquatic ecosystems.
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