{"id":548371,"date":"2018-11-19T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1b76cb924daa788b2fc1f24dd9caa0e6"},"modified":"2018-11-19T12:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:00:19","slug":"from-the-arctic-to-the-tropics-researchers-present-unique-database-on-earths-vegetation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=548371","title":{"rendered":"From the Arctic to the tropics: Researchers present unique database on Earth&#8217;s vegetation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which plant species grow where, alongside which others\u2014and why? The diversity of global vegetation can be described based on only a few traits from each species. This has been revealed by a research team led by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig. In a new study published in the scientific journal Nature Ecology &#038; Evolution, they present the world&#8217;s first global vegetation database which contains over 1.1 million complete lists of plant species sampled across all Earth&#8217;s ecosystems. The database could help better predict the consequences of global climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which plant species grow where, alongside which others&mdash;and why? The diversity of global vegetation can be described based on only a few traits from each species. This has been revealed by a research team led by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig. In a new study published in the scientific journal Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution, they present the world&#8217;s first global vegetation database which contains over 1.1 million complete lists of plant species sampled across all Earth&#8217;s ecosystems. The database could help better predict the consequences of global climate change.<\/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-548371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548371","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=548371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548372,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548371\/revisions\/548372"}],"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=548371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}