{"id":25741,"date":"2010-07-13T17:09:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T17:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/07\/13\/storms-and-tree-death-in-the-a\/"},"modified":"2010-07-13T17:09:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T17:09:56","slug":"storms-and-tree-death-in-the-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/storms-and-tree-death-in-the-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms and Tree Death in the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve actually studied the relationship between storm activities and tree falls in a rain forest, so when I saw this, I thought it was quite interesting.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Study Finds Amazon Storm Killed Half a Billion Trees<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A single, huge, violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a billion trees, according to a new study funded by NASA and Tulane University, New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>While storms have long been recognized as a cause of Amazon tree loss, this study is the first to actually quantify losses from a storm. And the losses are much greater than previously suspected, say the study&#8217;s authors, which include research scientist Sassan Saatchi of NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The work suggests that storms may play a larger role in the dynamics of Amazon forests than previously recognized, they add.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.cfm?release=2010-232&#038;cid=release_2010-232\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve actually studied the relationship between storm activities and tree falls in a rain forest, so when I saw this, I thought it was quite interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Hb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}