{"id":165141,"date":"2023-06-04T19:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T00:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/discovery-in-pacific-coral-reefs-suggests-earths-microbial-diversity-may-be-underestimated"},"modified":"2023-06-04T19:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T00:23:46","slug":"discovery-in-pacific-coral-reefs-suggests-earths-microbial-diversity-may-be-underestimated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/discovery-in-pacific-coral-reefs-suggests-earths-microbial-diversity-may-be-underestimated","title":{"rendered":"Discovery in Pacific coral reefs suggests Earth\u2019s microbial diversity may be underestimated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-in-pacific-coral-reefs-suggests-earths-microbial-diversity-may-be-underestimated2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A two-year expedition to coral reefs in the <a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"Pacific Ocean\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/01\/11\/ocean-heat-content-record-high-global-warming\" data-vars-content-id=\"aa03c07b-e81e-4671-baa6-be1dce087ce0\" data-vars-headline=\"The diversity of bacteria on Earth may be vastly underestimated\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/01\/11\/ocean-heat-content-record-high-global-warming\" target=\"_self\">Pacific Ocean<\/a> detected half a million types of microbes, the latest estimate in the quest to quantify the planet\u2019s microbiome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The big picture: <\/strong>There is intense debate among scientists about how many different types of bacteria and other microorganisms live on Earth \u2014 information that could <a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"aid conservation\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41564-022-01173-1\" data-vars-content-id=\"aa03c07b-e81e-4671-baa6-be1dce087ce0\" data-vars-headline=\"The diversity of bacteria on Earth may be vastly underestimated\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41564-022-01173-1\" target=\"_blank\">aid conservation<\/a> of species and fragile ecosystems brimming with biodiversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-year expedition to coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean detected half a million types of microbes, the latest estimate in the quest to quantify the planet\u2019s microbiome. The big picture: There is intense debate among scientists about how many different types of bacteria and other microorganisms live on Earth \u2014 information that could aid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165141","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}