Human Folly about “ecology”

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• Forgotten fruits or megafaunal dispersal syndrome and the case of the missing herbivores (guestblog.scientopia.org):

  Avocado seeds and horseapples may be relics from megafauna dispersal. #biology #ecology

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• Deep subsurface microbes (microbewiki.kenyon.edu):

  Deep subsurface microbes are probably the majority of the #biosphere’s biomass, as deep as 2.8 km. “Subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystems” or “SLiMEs”. Some of these are as dense as 100 million cells per gram; cell division may occur once per decade or once per century. Distinguishing live cells from dead ones is often impossible. #biology #ecology

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