For a moment I misread this as "Rotating logs are mini-ecosystems", as a complaint about disorganized cloud-computing. I remember a theory that that the delay

For a moment I misread this as "Rotating logs are mini-ecosystems", as a complaint about disorganized cloud-computing. I remember a theory that that the delay between trees emerging with lignin and species specialized to digest it caused a unique spike in un-decayed matter and therefore modern coal deposits, but it seems like that has been debunked [0] now. [0] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517943113 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517943113