{"638789":{"#nid":"638789","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"North American Biomes Are Losing Their Resilience, With Risks for Mass Extinctions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe resilience of North America\u0026rsquo;s plant biomes is declining \u0026mdash; indicating that today\u0026rsquo;s landscapes are \u0026ldquo;primed to herald a major extinction event\u0026rdquo; not seen since the retreat of glaciers and arrival of humans 13,000 years ago, scientists reported in a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/gcb.15299\u0022\u003Enew study\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;published in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EGlobal Change Biology\u003C\/em\u003E. \u0026quot;Humans are expanding our footprint and climates are changing rapidly,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2020-08\/giot-fpr082320.php\u0022\u003Esaid Yue Wang\u003C\/a\u003E, a postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Tech who led the study.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35185","created_gmt":"2020-09-04 15:05:20","changed_gmt":"2020-09-04 15:05:20","author":"kpietkiewicz3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"50 years of title ix","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/digest\/north-american-biomes-are-losing-their-resilience-with-risks-for-mass-extinctions","dateline":{"date":"2020-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}