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		SideburnsOfDoom on July 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hugelkultur: Raised Garden Beds This is the "Gaia hypothesis" on a smaller scale.

carapace on July 22, 2020 [–]

Yes, if you like. Consider the stromatolite, or trichoplax. It seems to me that the boundary, if any, between "ecosystem" and "organism" is conceptual rather than physical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichoplax

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