{"id":133589,"date":"2022-01-05T03:23:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T11:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/gravitational-action-of-sun-and-moon-influences-behavior-of-animals-and-plants-study-shows"},"modified":"2022-01-05T03:23:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T11:23:39","slug":"gravitational-action-of-sun-and-moon-influences-behavior-of-animals-and-plants-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/gravitational-action-of-sun-and-moon-influences-behavior-of-animals-and-plants-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational action of sun and moon influences behavior of animals and plants, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gravitational-action-of-sun-and-moon-influences-behavior-of-animals-and-plants-study-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rhythms of activity in all biological organisms, both plants and animals, are closely linked to the gravitational tides created by the orbital mechanics of the sun-Earth-moon system. This truth has been somewhat neglected by scientific research but is foregrounded in a study by Cristiano de Mello Gallep at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, and Daniel Robert at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. An article on the study is published in the Journal of Experimental Botany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll matter on Earth, both live and inert, experiences the effects of the gravitational forces of the sun and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/moon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">moon<\/a> expressed in the form of tides. The periodic oscillations exhibit two daily cycles and are modulated monthly and annually by the motions of these two celestial bodies. All <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/organisms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">organisms<\/a> on the planet have evolved in this context. What we sought to show in the article is that gravitational tides are a perceptible and potent force that has always shaped the rhythmic activities of these organisms,\u201d Gallep told.<\/p>\n<p>The study is both an extensive review of the literature and a meta-analysis of the data from three previously published cases in which gravitational causality was not fully explored: The swimming activity of isopods, small shell-less crustaceans whose appearance on Earth dates from at least 300 million years ago; reproductive effort in coral; and growth modulation in sunflower seedlings inferred from autoluminescence. In the latter case, the researchers analyzed results of their own investigations as well as data from the literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rhythms of activity in all biological organisms, both plants and animals, are closely linked to the gravitational tides created by the orbital mechanics of the sun-Earth-moon system. This truth has been somewhat neglected by scientific research but is foregrounded in a study by Cristiano de Mello Gallep at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}