{"id":729502,"date":"2022-07-12T13:57:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T17:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=729502"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:57:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T17:57:04","slug":"scientists-uncover-why-urchins-are-mowing-down-californias-kelp-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=729502","title":{"rendered":"Scientists uncover why urchins are mowing down California&#039;s kelp forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purple sea urchins are munching their way through California&#8217;s kelp forests at a speed and scale that have stunned scientists, fishermen and divers alike. But the kelp forests have long been home to red and purple urchins, so it&#8217;s clear the three species can get along. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara sought to determine what factors disrupt this harmony.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-07-scientists-uncover-urchins-california-kelp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scientists uncover why urchins are mowing down California&#8217;s kelp forests<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purple sea urchins are munching their way through California&#8217;s kelp forests at a speed and scale that have stunned scientists, fishermen and divers alike. But the kelp forests have long&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-729502","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\/729502","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=729502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729502\/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=729502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}