Question

which are the types of consumers? what are the criteria for their classification?​

Answer 1

Answer:

The four types of consumers in ecology are herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers.

Explanation:

The main criteria for the classification are:

importance of the disease or severity of the infection;

infectivity (virulence of the strain, infective dose, mode of transmission, natural route of infection);

host range of the micro-organism and spectrum of specificity of target-species;