{"id":1988,"date":"2014-06-16T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T20:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2014-06-17T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:40:22","slug":"do-seed-eating-squirrels-impact-the-whole-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/do-seed-eating-squirrels-impact-the-whole-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Do seed-eating squirrels impact the whole forest?<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1963\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase64ad8000719e796af0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1963\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1963\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase64ad8000719e796af0.png\" alt=\"A red squirrel feeding on a lodgepole pine cone. (Photo credit: Matthew Talluto)\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase64ad8000719e796af0.png 500w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase64ad8000719e796af0-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A red squirrel feeding on a lodgepole pine cone. (Photo credit: Matthew Talluto)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study shows that trees that store lots of fire-resistant seeds to prepare for forest fires end up attracting more seed-eating red squirrels, which provokes a cascading effect on the ability of forest to grow back after a fire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The study relies on three years of field study in Yellowstone park and applies to Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine forest, which covers millions of hectares in western North America. Understanding how forests recover from fires and predation could help in forest management and conservation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2014\/06\/11\/1400944111.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 16, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Matthew Talluto, University of\u00a0Qu\u00e9bec at\u00a0Rimouski,\u00a0Quebec<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that trees that store lots of fire-resistant seeds to prepare for forest fires end up attracting more seed-eating red squirrels, which provokes a cascading effect on the ability of forest to grow back after a fire. The study relies on three years of field study in Yellowstone park and applies to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174,170,113,1445,171,215],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-conservation","tag-ecology","tag-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase64ad8000719e796af0.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-w4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}