{"id":315,"date":"2007-11-28T16:03:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T16:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=315"},"modified":"2007-12-03T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T16:28:06","slug":"amphibian-populations-face-risk-of-decimation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/amphibian-populations-face-risk-of-decimation\/","title":{"rendered":"Amphibian populations face risk of decimation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research published in the Royal Society journal shows that the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7115557.stm\">fungal disease  Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is spreading<\/a>.\u00a0 BD as it is sometimes called infects the skins of amphibians such as frogs, toads, salamanders and newts .\u00a0 One-third of all the losses in amphibian species recorded around the world are thought to be due to the disease.<\/p>\n<p>This is another harbinger of biosphere destruction.\u00a0 It is similar to the hypothetical story outlined by James Lovelock in Gaia &#8211; a simple disease taken outside its normal habitat has a rapid, destructive impact on its new environment and adapts to allow more rapid propagation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research published in the Royal Society journal shows that the fungal disease Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is spreading.\u00a0 BD as it is sometimes called infects the skins of amphibians such as frogs, toads, salamanders and newts .\u00a0 One-third of all the losses in amphibian species recorded around the world are thought to be due to the disease. &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/amphibian-populations-face-risk-of-decimation\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amphibian populations face risk of decimation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-55","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}