{"id":274,"date":"2016-05-27T16:21:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T20:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/?p=274"},"modified":"2016-05-27T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T20:21:51","slug":"spring-comes-sooner-to-urban-heat-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/spring-comes-sooner-to-urban-heat-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Comes Sooner to Urban Heat Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cities are often warmer than surrounding rural areas due to high impervious cover (cement, asphalt, etc.), a phenomenon known as the &#8220;urban heat island effect&#8221;. This effect has been shown to cause plants in urban environments to leaf out earlier in the spring than in rural habitat. This change in leaf-out and blooming time could have important ecological consequences, particular for animals dependent on plant species.<\/p>\n<p>For more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/05\/160525114118.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29\">here<\/a> is an article describing the study and its results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cities are often warmer than surrounding rural areas due to high impervious cover (cement, asphalt, etc.), a phenomenon known as the &#8220;urban heat island effect&#8221;. This effect has been shown to cause plants in urban environments to leaf out earlier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/spring-comes-sooner-to-urban-heat-islands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}