{"id":669501,"date":"2020-10-09T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=669501"},"modified":"2020-10-09T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:09:09","slug":"researchers-study-the-invasive-frogs-role-in-galapagos-food-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=669501","title":{"rendered":"Researchers study the invasive frog&#039;s role in Galapagos food web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have taken pains to verify this assertion, and have found it true that frogs, toads, and newts are absent from most oceanic islands&#8221;\u2014thus states Charles Darwin in his well-known work &#8220;On the Origin of Species.&#8221; For a long time, this observation by the famous naturalist also held true for the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands, which are inextricably linked to his name. &#8220;This only changed with the arrival of Fowler&#8217;s snouted treefrog Scinax quinquefasciatus on the archipelago in 1997 or 1998,&#8221; explains Dr. habil. Raffael Ernst of the Senckenberg Natural History Collections in Dresden, and he continues, &#8220;In our study, we examined the interactions of this newcomer with the local, primarily endemic fauna on Gal\u00e1pagos.&#8221;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-10-invasive-frog-role-galapagos-food.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Researchers study the invasive frog&#8217;s role in Galapagos food web<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have taken pains to verify this assertion, and have found it true that frogs, toads, and newts are absent from most oceanic islands&#8221;\u2014thus states Charles Darwin in his well-known&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-669501","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\/669501","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=669501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669501\/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=669501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}