{"id":1895,"date":"2009-02-17T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2009\/02\/coral-reefs-cradles-of-evolution\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:47:06","slug":"coral-reefs-cradles-of-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/coral-reefs-cradles-of-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral Reefs: Cradles of Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/promo.aaas.org\/kn_marketing\/roundup\/2010_01_Jan_Roundup.html#Cradles\"><i>Science<\/i> roundup<\/a> included interesting work on coral reefs:<\/p>\n<p>Compiling geological and biological data from fossils, a team of evolutionary scientists has found indications of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reefs are important evolutionary cradles independent of their preferred habitat in shallow, tropical environments<\/li>\n<li>in nonreefal ecosystems, shallow-water environments represent the most important evolutionary cradles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Understanding reefs will help us understand populations of sea turtles and other marine wildlife as reefs face the threats of pollution and climate change.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January&#8217;s Science roundup included interesting work on coral reefs: Compiling geological and biological data from fossils, a team of evolutionary scientists has found indications of the following: reefs are important evolutionary cradles independent of their preferred habitat in shallow, tropical environments in nonreefal ecosystems, shallow-water environments represent the most important evolutionary cradles Understanding reefs will [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-environmental-conservation","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6024,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/6024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}