Decomposition: Microbial Succession Timeline (3D)

A running population-dynamics model of real ecological succession in decaying organic matter — aerobic bacteria, anaerobic bacteria, fungi and grazing nematodes rise and fall in sequence as each guild depletes oxygen, shifts pH and consumes nutrient in ways that favor the next guild, rendered as a colonized decaying log whose surface population and coloring shift live with temperature, moisture and nutrient controls.