{"id":6753,"date":"2019-05-24T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6753"},"modified":"2019-07-02T16:57:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T20:57:56","slug":"tiny-fish-make-outsized-contributions-to-coral-reefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/tiny-fish-make-outsized-contributions-to-coral-reefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny fish make <\/br>outsized contributions to coral reefs <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aav3384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published May 24, 2019 | 14:00 EDT\u00a0<\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/jrnls\/sci\/pages\/brandl-05-24-19.html\">News release<\/a>\u00a0from AAAS)<br \/>\nThe smallest of marine vertebrates \u2013 seldom-seen, historically overlooked reef fishes \u2013 contribute 40 per cent of reef-fish biodiversity and account for nearly two-thirds of near-reef larval fish pools. They also provide nearly 57 per cent of the total fish flesh consumed by larger reef fish, which millions of people depend on. The tiny fishes\u2019 contribution to coral reefs has been overlooked because they are eaten almost as quickly as they reproduce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lead author:<\/strong> Simon Brandl, Simon Fraser University &#8211;\u00a0<a>simonjbrandl@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Published May 24, 2019 | 14:00 EDT\u00a0(News release\u00a0from AAAS) The smallest of marine vertebrates \u2013 seldom-seen, historically overlooked reef fishes \u2013 contribute 40 per cent of reef-fish biodiversity and account for nearly two-thirds of near-reef larval fish pools. They also provide nearly 57 per cent of the total fish flesh consumed by larger reef [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6860,"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":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/reef-fish-copy.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1KV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6818,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions\/6818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}