{"id":4627,"date":"2016-02-17T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T19:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2016-02-26T12:23:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T17:23:54","slug":"newly-discovered-and-already-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/newly-discovered-and-already-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly discovered and already at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4628\" style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/journal.pone_.0148277.g007.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4628\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4628\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/journal.pone_.0148277.g007-172x300.png\" alt=\"One of the newly discovered species of whip spider found in the Amazonian rainforest. (Image credit: Guipponi &amp; Miranda)\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the newly discovered species of whip spider found in the Amazonian rainforest. (Image credit: Guipponi &amp; Miranda)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eight new species of the Whip spider have been found in the Brazilian amazon, underscoring how little is known about biodiversity in this rainforest. However half of the newly discovered species\u2019 habitat is threatened by human activity from dams and mining. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0148277\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>PLOS ONE\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>February 17<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lessandro Ponce de Le\u00e3o Giupponi, Programa de P\u00f3s-Gradua\u00e7\u00e3o em Zoologia, Departamento de Invertebrados, Laborat\u00f3rio de Aracnologia,Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight new species of the Whip spider have been found in the Brazilian amazon, underscoring how little is known about biodiversity in this rainforest. However half of the newly discovered species\u2019 habitat is threatened by human activity from dams and mining. Original research paper\u00a0published in PLOS ONE\u00a0on February 17, 2015. Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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":[174,170,1445,215,917],"class_list":["post-4627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1cD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627","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=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4630,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions\/4630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}