Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2023 11:38 am
by Don Schaeffer
The water in the jar is covered with a tangle of half digested leaves and stems. A thin biofilm covers the water. Seeing through the thin cover of bio-matter, I can see the variety of protists and bacteria moving about and passively absorbing the nutrition around them. The population varies with time and geography.

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