{"id":1550,"date":"2015-07-15T01:16:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T01:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:29:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:29:57","slug":"ecology-field-work-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2015\/07\/15\/ecology-field-work-in-the-bahamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Field work in the Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May, Dr. Goodman assisted a group of ecologists working on a unique island system in Great Abaco, Bahamas.\u00a0 For 10 days, she and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/ambernwright\/\">Amber Wright<\/a> of University of Hawaii caught, marked, and measured <em>Anolis sagrei<\/em> lizards derived from populations introduced to 16 tiny islands\u00a0two years ago.\u00a0 These islands will be compared to 16 additional islands that did not receive lizard introductions to determine the impact of \u201ctop down\u201d predator effects on these ecosystems.\u00a0 Plant growth and invertebrate populations are being monitored by ecologists <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/jpioviascott\/\">Jonah Piovia-Scott<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/yang.entomology.ucdavis.edu\/people.html\">Louie Yang<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eve.ucdavis.edu\/daspiller\/index.html\">David Spiller<\/a>. \u00a0This island system is also being used to determine the impact of \u201cbottom up\u201d effects of resource subsidies, in the form of hundreds of pounds of seaweed delivered to 16 of the 32 islands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biol108fall09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/Bahamas-101.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-508\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biol108fall09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/Bahamas-101-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bahamas 101\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biol108fall09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/P1030354.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-509\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biol108fall09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/P1030354-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1030354\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biol108fall09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/P1030196.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-510\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biol108fall09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/P1030196-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1030196\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biol108fall09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/Bahamas-5-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-511\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biol108fall09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/Bahamas-5-sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bahamas 5 sm\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, Dr. Goodman assisted a group of ecologists working on a unique island system in Great Abaco, Bahamas.\u00a0 For 10 days, she and Amber Wright of University of Hawaii caught, marked, and measured Anolis sagrei lizards derived from populations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2015\/07\/15\/ecology-field-work-in-the-bahamas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}