{"id":1536,"date":"2016-08-23T11:09:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T18:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2016-08-23T11:09:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T18:09:34","slug":"aitken-and-collaborators-talking-to-the-verge-about-climate-change-and-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/2016\/08\/23\/aitken-and-collaborators-talking-to-the-verge-about-climate-change-and-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"Aitken and collaborators talking to the Verge about climate change and forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/8\/22\/12430114\/assisted-migration-save-trees-forests-climate-change\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/files\/2016\/08\/Whitebark_pine_group.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Whitebark pines are majestic trees with a whitish, often wind-curled trunk that grow up high in the Rocky and Sierra Mountains, in the Western US. They\u2019re icons of Yellowstone National Park, where they provide high-calorie seeds for many animals, including grizzly bears that eat the seeds before hibernating. Some whitebark pines manage to live for a thousand years, but many of them are now dying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/8\/22\/12430114\/assisted-migration-save-trees-forests-climate-change\">Uprooted: how climate change may kick off an artificial migration of trees | The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whitebark pines are majestic trees with a whitish, often wind-curled trunk that grow up high in the Rocky and Sierra Mountains, in the Western US. They\u2019re icons of Yellowstone National Park, where they provide high-calorie seeds for many animals, including grizzly bears that eat the seeds before hibernating. Some whitebark pines manage to live for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4899],"tags":[662141,747529],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-outreach","tag-assisted-gene-flow","tag-assisted-migration","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}