{"id":7338,"date":"2025-05-20T11:58:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guardna.wpenginepowered.com\/overgrazed-kelp-forest\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:55:56","slug":"overgrazed-kelp-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/overgrazed-kelp-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Overgrazed kelp forest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u00a0Sea urchins are one of the species that feed on kelp. When the population of sea urchins grow uncontrollably, due to their predators being removed from the food web, they overfeed on these forests and cause them to disappear, destroying the entire ecosystem. Once the kelp is gone, it is replaced by other algal species that don\u2019t have the same function as kelp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/overgazed-kelp-forest.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1096px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1096\/482;width:500px;height:auto\" class=\"center lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\" style=\"font-size: 15px;text-align: center;\">(A) Healthy sugar kelp forest along the southern coast of Norway \u00a9 K. Filbee-Dexter \n(B) Once kelp forest, now the seafloor is covered by a dense carpet of turf algae and rare kelp plant \u00a9 T. Wernberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Sea urchins are one of the species that feed on kelp. When the population of sea urchins grow uncontrollably, due to their predators being removed from the food web, they overfeed on these forests and cause them to disappear, destroying the entire ecosystem. Once the kelp is gone, it is replaced by other algal species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,127,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-15-years-kl-gl","category-glossary-kl-gl","category-o-kl-gl"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Marina Metic","author_link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/author\/marinam\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/kl-gl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}