ghost riding the apocalypse cuz there’s no way off this ride

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  • Did those trees, before there were decomposers, have access to nitrogen fixing bacteria? Where were they getting ammonium and nitrate?
    Just stuff built up from lightning, nitrogen and oxygen?

    Edit: Looks like land dwelling soil forming bacteria started in the Cambrian. Then, in the Ordovician the first land plants. Then, in the Silurian vascular plants and trees appeared.