{"id":363233,"date":"2017-08-23T08:19:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5cbb1e87e613190def32f6f5149c8f70"},"modified":"2017-08-23T08:19:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:19:57","slug":"clear-it-but-will-they-come-native-plants-need-re-seeding-after-rhododendron-removal-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=363233","title":{"rendered":"Clear it \u2013 but will they come? Native plants need re-seeding after rhododendron removal, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Native plants need a helping hand if they are to recover from invasive rhododendron, Scottish ecologists have discovered. A new study in the Journal of Applied Ecology reveals that \u2013 even at sites cleared of rhododendron 30 years ago \u2013 much native flora has still not returned. As a result, rhododendron eradication programmes may need to be supplemented by reseeding for the original plant community to re-establish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Native plants need a helping hand if they are to recover from invasive rhododendron, Scottish ecologists have discovered. A new study in the Journal of Applied Ecology reveals that &ndash; even at sites cleared of rhododendron 30 years ago &ndash; much native flora has still not returned. As a result, rhododendron eradication programmes may need to be supplemented by reseeding for the original plant community to re-establish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363234,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363233\/revisions\/363234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}