{"id":387169,"date":"2017-10-12T06:15:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T10:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=79591888469993fae94a0b9b2d10147c"},"modified":"2017-10-12T06:15:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T10:15:35","slug":"using-penguins-to-monitor-ocean-health-may-be-ineffective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=387169","title":{"rendered":"Using penguins to monitor ocean health may be ineffective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penguins are noisy, as any visitor to an aquarium knows. Penguins may be noisy in others ways too, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Scientists have long used Ad\u00e9lie penguin populations to monitor the health of the Southern Ocean and to understand how major factors such as fishing and climate change impact the oceans and the animals that rely on them. Now an extensive analysis of all known data on Ad\u00e9lie penguin populations over the last 35 years has found that only a small fraction of year-to-year changes in Ad\u00e9lie penguin populations can be attributed to measureable factors such as changes in sea ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penguins are noisy, as any visitor to an aquarium knows. Penguins may be noisy in others ways too, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Scientists have long used Ad&eacute;lie penguin populations to monitor the health of the Southern Ocean and to understand how major factors such as fishing and climate change impact the oceans and the animals that rely on them. Now an extensive analysis of all known data on Ad&eacute;lie penguin populations over the last 35 years has found that only a small fraction of year-to-year changes in Ad&eacute;lie penguin populations can be attributed to measureable factors such as changes in sea ice.<\/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-387169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387169","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=387169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387170,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387169\/revisions\/387170"}],"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=387169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}