When copper is used to treat a dugout, assume that toxins have been released by the decomposing bacteria.

These containers slow the decomposition process by (partially) physically blocking decomposing bacteria and other organisms from accessing the corpse.

Biocept replaces these strains of bacteria with more resilient forms of organic decomposing bacteria.

Animal excrement, and the dead bodies of plants and animals are recycled by decomposing bacteria to form ammonium (NH4+).

By increasing the density of the plankton soup, the additional food is of no extra value to them, but the decomposing bacteria become a life-threatening risk.

The green soup contains guilds (functional groups) of all kind: plants, grazers, predators, viruses, larvae of nearly all marine species, decomposing bacteria, nitrifying and denitrifying microbes and much more.

Glossary Activated sludge treatment – A treatment process for waste by-products, such as ink and fibre particles from recycled waste paper, whereby decomposing bacteria are purposely added to the sludge and the mixture is then agitated to dissolve oxygen.

Based on a genetic analysis of mushroom fungi, David Hibbett and colleagues proposed that large quantities of wood were buried during this period because animals and decomposing bacteria had not yet evolved enzymes that could effectively digest the resistant phenolic lignin polymers and waxy suberin polymers.