{"id":357,"date":"2021-10-02T17:28:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T00:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/?page_id=357"},"modified":"2022-07-05T08:45:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:45:56","slug":"what-is-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/home\/what-is-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Documenting Biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The focus of this website is to help you document biodiversity of plants and plant-like organisms and share your discoveries.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What is biodiversity?<\/strong> \u00a0 <\/em>Biodiversity is derived from &#8216;biological diversity&#8217;.\u00a0 It refers to all types of variation we find in life: genetic, species, and ecosystem.\u00a0 Here we focus on recording the different species we find &#8211; that could be during a special outing to a forest as or observations in your own backyard or neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes organisms are obvious and showy while others are cryptic and hidden from view. What can be more rewarding that finding a creature you have never seen before?&#8230;Identifying it and sharing your discovery with others!!<\/p>\n<p>From seashores to forests there are so many interesting ecosystems to explore &#8211; each with a unique combination of organisms they call home.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-957 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/files\/2022\/07\/ecosystem_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/files\/2022\/07\/ecosystem_banner.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/files\/2022\/07\/ecosystem_banner-300x45.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/files\/2022\/07\/ecosystem_banner-1024x152.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/files\/2022\/07\/ecosystem_banner-768x114.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The focus of this website is to help you document biodiversity of plants and plant-like organisms and share your discoveries. What is biodiversity? \u00a0 Biodiversity is derived from &#8216;biological diversity&#8217;.\u00a0 It refers to all types of variation we find in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/home\/what-is-biodiversity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58724,"featured_media":0,"parent":29,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-357","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357\/revisions\/962"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}