{"id":590890,"date":"2019-03-12T16:34:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=dd1493fc2d6eddc4e0bc56740c078f2b"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:34:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:34:03","slug":"phoenix-is-losing-birds-but-desert-plants-provided-by-homeowners-offer-habitat-for-desert-species-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=590890","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix is losing birds, but desert plants provided by homeowners offer habitat for desert species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A persistent question among urban ecology researchers has been the long-term impact of urbanization on bird species biodiversity. Specifically, they wonder whether the portions of cities with higher diversity are simply exhibiting an &#8220;extinction debt\u2014populations doomed to extinction but not yet disappeared\u2014or if other factors such as range shifts or local environmental changes play a role in changes in diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A persistent question among urban ecology researchers has been the long-term impact of urbanization on bird species biodiversity. Specifically, they wonder whether the portions of cities with higher diversity are simply exhibiting an &#8220;extinction debt&mdash;populations doomed to extinction but not yet disappeared&mdash;or if other factors such as range shifts or local environmental changes play a role in changes in diversity.<\/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-590890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590890","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=590890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590891,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590890\/revisions\/590891"}],"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=590890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}