{"id":1982,"date":"2013-04-02T13:14:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2013-04-02T13:14:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:14:01","slug":"portrait-of-an-invasion-lionfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/02\/portrait-of-an-invasion-lionfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of an Invasion &#8211; Lionfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/portrait-of-lionfish.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1983\" title=\"portrait of lionfish\" src=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/portrait-of-lionfish-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"portrait of lionfish\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>The red lionfish is an invasive species native to the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Their human-caused introduction and subsequent population increase are now causing negative impacts on marine ecosystems in the southeastern seaboard of the U.S. and the Caribbean Sea. Lionfish are efficient predators invading a variety of natural and artificial habitats, competing with native predator fish and consuming smaller fishes, including the young of large species. A similar species, the devil firefish, Pterois miles, has also been introduced in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>See brochure here: <a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lionfish-final-to-go_small.pdf\">Portrait of a Lionfish<\/a>\u00a0(PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The red lionfish is an invasive species native to the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Their human-caused introduction and subsequent population increase are now causing negative impacts on marine ecosystems in the southeastern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}