{"id":210773,"date":"2025-04-07T05:18:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/dark-diversity-the-invisible-threat-infiltrating-nature-worldwide"},"modified":"2025-04-07T05:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:18:48","slug":"dark-diversity-the-invisible-threat-infiltrating-nature-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/dark-diversity-the-invisible-threat-infiltrating-nature-worldwide","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dark Diversity\u2019: The Invisible Threat Infiltrating Nature Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-diversity-the-invisible-threat-infiltrating-nature-worldwide2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you go walking in the wild, you might expect that what you\u2019re seeing is natural. All around you are trees, shrubs and grasses growing in their natural habitat.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s something here that doesn\u2019t add up. Across the world, there are large areas of habitat which would suit native plant species just fine. But very often, they\u2019re simply absent.<\/p>\n<p>Our new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-08814-5\">research<\/a> gauges the scale of this problem, known as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dark_diversity\">dark diversity<\/a>\u201d. Our international team of 200 scientists examined plant species in thousands of sites worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you go walking in the wild, you might expect that what you\u2019re seeing is natural. All around you are trees, shrubs and grasses growing in their natural habitat. But there\u2019s something here that doesn\u2019t add up. Across the world, there are large areas of habitat which would suit native plant species just fine. But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210773","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=210773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}