After Gerry mows his lawn, he often puts the grass clippings into his flower garden.How will this affect his garden?

Grass clippings contain carbon from the plants. When Gerry adds them to the garden, decomposers break them down, returning some carbon to the soil and releasing some as carbon dioxide through respiration. So both the amount of carbon in the soil and the carbon dioxide released by decomposers increase, matching “increase the amount of carbon in the soil and increase the amount of carbon dioxide released by decomposers.”

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