{"id":146455,"date":"2022-09-15T13:40:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T18:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/the-entire-food-chain-has-started-collapsing-scientists-warn"},"modified":"2022-09-15T13:40:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T18:40:50","slug":"the-entire-food-chain-has-started-collapsing-scientists-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/the-entire-food-chain-has-started-collapsing-scientists-warn","title":{"rendered":"The Entire Food Chain Has Started Collapsing, Scientists Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-entire-food-chain-has-started-collapsing-scientists-warn2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to 130,000 years\u2019 worth of data on what mammals have been eating, we\u2019re in the midst of a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/mit-scientist-mass-extinction\" class=\"\">mass biodiversity crisis<\/a>. Not great!<\/p>\n<p>This revelation was borne of a new study, conducted by an international team of researchers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abn4012\" class=\"\">published in the journal <em>Science<\/em>,<\/a> that used machine learning to paint a detailed past \u2014 and harrowing future \u2014 of what happens to food webs when land mammals go extinct. Spoiler alert: it\u2019s pretty <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/mass-extinction-started-scientists\" class=\"\">grim stuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile about 6 percent of land mammals have gone extinct in that time, we estimate that more than 50 percent of mammal food web links have disappeared,\u201d Evan Fricke, ecologist and lead author of the study, <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/a-biodiversity-crisis-food-webs-worldwide-are-collapsing\/\" class=\"\">said in a press release.<\/a> \u201cAnd the mammals most likely to decline, both in the past and now, are key for mammal food web complexity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to 130,000 years\u2019 worth of data on what mammals have been eating, we\u2019re in the midst of a mass biodiversity crisis. Not great! This revelation was borne of a new study, conducted by an international team of researchers and published in the journal Science, that used machine learning to paint a detailed past \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146455","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=146455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}