{"id":138522,"date":"2022-04-24T02:02:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T07:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/humans-disrupting-66-million-year-old-fundamental-feature-of-ecosystems-this-hasnt-happened-before"},"modified":"2022-04-24T02:02:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T07:02:32","slug":"humans-disrupting-66-million-year-old-fundamental-feature-of-ecosystems-this-hasnt-happened-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/humans-disrupting-66-million-year-old-fundamental-feature-of-ecosystems-this-hasnt-happened-before","title":{"rendered":"Humans Disrupting 66 Million-Year-Old Fundamental Feature of Ecosystems \u2014 \u201cThis Hasn\u2019t Happened Before\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-disrupting-66-million-year-old-fundamental-feature-of-ecosystems-this-hasnt-happened-before2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a new study, the U-shaped association between diet and size in modern land mammals could also stand for \u201cuniversal,\u201d as the relationship covers at least 66 million years and a range of vertebrate animal groups.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been several decades since ecologists realized that graphing the diet-size relationship of terrestrial mammals yields a U-shaped curve when aligning those mammals on a plant-to-protein gradient. As illustrated by that curve, the plant-eating herbivores on the far left and meat-eating carnivores on the far right tend to grow much larger than those of the all-consuming omnivores and the invertebrate-feasting invertivores in the middle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study, the U-shaped association between diet and size in modern land mammals could also stand for \u201cuniversal,\u201d as the relationship covers at least 66 million years and a range of vertebrate animal groups. It\u2019s been several decades since ecologists realized that graphing the diet-size relationship of terrestrial mammals yields a U-shaped [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138522","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}