{"id":186,"date":"2016-05-16T14:42:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T18:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/?page_id=186"},"modified":"2016-05-16T14:47:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T18:47:44","slug":"animals-and-nutrient-cycling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/projects\/projects-2\/animals-and-nutrient-cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals and Nutrient Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Lynn Christenson (Biology)<br \/>\nAnimals can have both direct and indirect effects on nutrient cycling: selective browsing on preferred species of vegetation influences plant community composition, and urine and feces also act\u00a0in nutrient cycling. A study in Hubbard Brook looked for sightings of large animals (deer, moose, bear) to see where these animals frequent and how\u00a0that might affect forest ecosystems, trophic structures, and nutrient cycling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2015\/09\/hubbard.jpg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-188\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2015\/09\/hubbard.jpg-1024x790.png\" alt=\"hubbard.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2015\/09\/hubbard.jpg-1024x790.png 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2015\/09\/hubbard.jpg-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2015\/09\/hubbard.jpg.png 1481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynn Christenson (Biology) Animals can have both direct and indirect effects on nutrient cycling: selective browsing on preferred species of vegetation influences plant community composition, and urine and feces also act\u00a0in nutrient cycling. A study in Hubbard Brook looked for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/projects\/projects-2\/animals-and-nutrient-cycling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1712,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-186","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186\/revisions\/189"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}