#Decomposing #deadwood is a #biodiversityhotspot; many small #organisms are either direct #decomposers or closely ecologically related to these primary decomposers. This #riparianforest in Saarland, #Germany, remains partly uncontrolled and is thus full of deadwood in different stages of decomposition. The authors T. Löfroth et al. (2023) studied #factors such as #globalwarming negatively affecting deadwood #ecosystems.
©#StefanFWirth November 2025

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The amazing world of fungi. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/oct/19/amazing-world-fungi-tom-may-pictures

#Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Fungus #MushroomLove #FungiPhotography #Nature #Forest #NaturePhotography #Decomposers

#Drought effects on decomposition are mitigated by an increasingly complex decomposer community. The more species of decomposer organisms there are, the less the essential process of recycling nutrients is affected by the lack of water.

#Study, 2024, https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2313334121 @agriculture @permaculture

#wildfires #conservation #landscaping #bioGeography #wildLife #forestry #forests #leaves #bacteria #fungus #decomposers #recycling #agroforestry #research #agriculture

Your microbes live on after you die − a microbiologist explains how your necrobiome recycles your body to nourish new life - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/your-microbes-live-on-after-you-die-a-microbiologist-explains-how-your-necrobiome-recycles-your-body-to-nourish-new-life-2665753971

via Alternative News ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.pinenuts.altrastampa )

#Microbes
#Necrobiome
#Autolysis
#GutBacteria
#Clostridia
#Putrefaction
#Death
#SoilMicrobes
#Oxygen
#Nitrogen
#Decomposers
#Ammonium
#Nitrate
#Carbon
#Fauna
#Arthropods
#Insects

I can't wait for bug season. Right now, I still have to turn over wood and dig around for them. Today, other than moss, the star at the farm were these pillbugs, wood lice, whatever you call them where you're from. All the thousands of times I've seen them in my life, I don't know if I've ever actually looked one in the eyes until today.

#isopods #wildlife #macrodon #decomposers #recyclers #oregon

Understanding the cryptic role #fungi play in ecosystems https://phys.org/news/2022-12-cryptic-role-fungi-play-ecosystems.html

Fungal Dispersal Across Spatial Scales: Bala Chaudhary et al. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012622-021604

"We typically think of fungi as #decomposers, but they are cryptic and do many different things. Fungi can also function as nutrient cyclers, #pathogens, and #mutualists that live in a beneficial association with plants and other organisms."