Also, I forgot to mention this great Common Descent episode about decomposers:
https://commondescentpodcast.com/2025/03/15/episode-213-decomposers/

#fossils
#paleontology
#decomposition
#taphonomy

#decomposition : the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound

- French: décomposition

- Italian: decomposizione

- Portuguese: decomposição

- Spanish: descomposición

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#Composting #collage.
Compost textures in various stages of #decomposition.

Does anybody know, do #corks decompose? I am thinking #compost.

Did a "deep watering" of everything in my patio container garden this morning. (The garden is a mix of in-ground and potted plants.)

Now it reeks of "dead animal." The smell is very strong and unmistakeable and gross. Something died underneath something (a pot, a storage chest?) and I just soaked its little rotting corpse. Ugh...

For the past several years my compost bin failed to hit the desired temperature range, and it was driving me crazy. Too much coffee grounds? Not enough water? It turns out that the temperature probe was the problem. #compost #garden #gardening #allotment #respiration #decomposition #soil

A comprehensive analysis shows that the permafrost area of Northern Hemisphere may have shifted from a sink to a source of #greenhouse gases, bringing a longtime prediction to fruition.

Historically, the #permafrost region has been a sink for carbon, as frozen soils inhibit microbial #decomposition.

But rising temperatures contribute to thawing permafrost and enhance the biogeochemical activities that exacerbate #climate change by releasing greenhouse gases.

https://eos.org/research-spotlights/northern-permafrost-region-emits-more-greenhouse-gases-than-it-captures

#decompwlj It's a decomposition of positive integers. The weight is the smallest such that in the Euclidean division of a number by its weight, the remainder is the jump (first difference, gap). The quotient will be the level. So to decompose a(n), we need a(n+1) with a(n+1)>a(n) (strictly increasing sequence), the decomposition is possible if a(n+1)<3/2×a(n) and we have the unique decomposition a(n) = weight × level + jump.

We see the fundamental theorem of arithmetic and the sieve of Eratosthenes in the decomposition into weight × level + jump of natural numbers. For natural numbers, the weight is the smallest prime factor of (n-1) and the level is the largest proper divisor of (n-1). Natural numbers classified by level are the (primes + 1) and natural numbers classified by weight are the (composites +1).

For prime numbers, this decomposition led to a new classification of primes. Primes classified by weight follow Legendre conjecture and i conjecture that primes classified by level rarefy. I think this conjecture is very important for the distribution of primes.

It's easy to see and prove that lesser of twin primes (>3) have a weight of 3. So the twin primes conjecture can be rewritten: there are infinitely many primes that have a weight of 3.

I am not mathematician so i decompose sequences to promote my vision of numbers. By doing these decompositions, i apply a kind of sieve on each sequences.

https://oeis.org/wiki/Decomposition_into_weight_*_level_%2B_jump