{"id":7859,"date":"2017-09-07T15:11:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T22:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=7859"},"modified":"2017-09-07T15:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T22:11:32","slug":"mangroves-the-skin-of-our-coasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/mangroves-the-skin-of-our-coasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangroves: The Skin of Our Coasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/Mangroves-The-Skin-of-Our-Coasts-32430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/widescreen\/32430.jpg\" alt=\"8232\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Mangroves, trees that form forests in the transition between land and sea, provide a habitat for a great diversity of plants and animals worldwide. These coastal ecosystems are invaluable to humans, supplying a number of services essential for our survival. We still do not know how much these ecosystems are worth from an economic perspective &#8211; but they are essential from an ecological perspective. <a href=\"https:\/\/scripps.ucsd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scripps Oceanography&#8217;s Octavio Aburto<\/a> examines mangrove ecosystems and explains why it is vital to put enormous efforts into understanding their value.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/Mangroves-The-Skin-of-Our-Coasts-32430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Mangroves: The Skin of Our Coasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/oceanscience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out the Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series archives<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mangroves, trees that form forests in the transition between land and sea, provide a habitat for a great diversity of plants and animals worldwide. These coastal ecosystems are invaluable to humans, supplying a number of services essential for our survival. We still do not know how much these ecosystems are worth from an economic perspective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,32,88,2],"tags":[349,350,351,352,259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}