{"id":737692,"date":"2022-10-12T15:29:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T19:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=737692"},"modified":"2022-10-12T15:29:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T19:29:23","slug":"endangered-fruit-eating-animals-play-an-outsized-role-in-a-tropical-forest-losing-them-could-have-dire-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=737692","title":{"rendered":"Endangered fruit-eating animals play an outsized role in a tropical forest\u2014losing them could have dire consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by researchers at the University of Washington shows that losing a particular group of endangered animals\u2014those that eat fruit and help disperse the seeds of trees and other plants\u2014could severely disrupt seed-dispersal networks in the Atlantic Forest, a shrinking stretch of tropical forest and critical biodiversity hotspot on the coast of Brazil.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-10-endangered-fruit-eating-animals-outsized-role.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Endangered fruit-eating animals play an outsized role in a tropical forest\u2014losing them could have dire consequences<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by researchers at the University of Washington shows that losing a particular group of endangered animals\u2014those that eat fruit and help disperse the seeds of trees and&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-737692","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\/737692","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=737692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737692\/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=737692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}