{"id":2065,"date":"2013-05-27T22:14:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T22:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2019-12-05T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:04:46","slug":"invasive-seagrass-h-stipulacea-nature-foundation-research-results-simpson-bay-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/27\/invasive-seagrass-h-stipulacea-nature-foundation-research-results-simpson-bay-lagoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasive Seagrass H. Stipulacea &#8211; Nature Foundation Research Results (Simpson Bay Lagoon)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/H.-stipulacea-report.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/H.-stipulacea-report-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2066\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday February 12th, staff of the St. Maarten Nature Foundation conducted research on the possible\u00a0presence of H. stipulacea, an invasive seagrass, in the Simpson Bay Lagoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first unconfirmed,\u00a0anecdotal report of a specimen of H. stipulacea being present in the Simpson Bay Lagoon was given by\u00a0researchers of EcoVision in 2010, who were conducting an EIA on the construction of the Lagoon\u00a0Causeway. Though no photos or documentation was produced showing the presence of the species, it was\u00a0decided that based on the disconcerting nature of marine plant invasions, research be conducted on the\u00a0presence of the species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/H.-stipulacea-report.pdf\">H. Stipulacea Report<\/a>\u00a0(PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday February 12th, staff of the St. Maarten Nature Foundation conducted research on the possible\u00a0presence of H. stipulacea, an invasive seagrass, in the Simpson Bay Lagoon. The first unconfirmed,\u00a0anecdotal [&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":[14,35],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065"}],"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=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13353,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/13353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}