{"id":626570,"date":"2019-08-07T08:14:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T12:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=626570"},"modified":"2019-08-07T08:14:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T12:14:11","slug":"surprising-level-of-biodiversity-found-among-western-new-york-lichen-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=626570","title":{"rendered":"Surprising level of biodiversity found among western New York lichen populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iron smelters and coal-fired power plants may be gone, but the imprint of a rust-belt region&#8217;s industrial legacy remains in its lichen communities. Lichens are the proverbial &#8220;canaries in the coal mine&#8221; when it comes to looking at the damaging effects of pollution in a given area, said Robert J. Warren, associate professor of biology.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-08-biodiversity-western-york-lichen-populations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Surprising level of biodiversity found among western New York lichen populations<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iron smelters and coal-fired power plants may be gone, but the imprint of a rust-belt region&#8217;s industrial legacy remains in its lichen communities. Lichens are the proverbial &#8220;canaries in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626570","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626570\/revisions"}],"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=626570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}