{"id":215202,"date":"2025-06-02T01:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/earths-seasonal-rhythms-are-changing-putting-species-and-ecosystems-at-risk"},"modified":"2025-06-02T01:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:06:18","slug":"earths-seasonal-rhythms-are-changing-putting-species-and-ecosystems-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/earths-seasonal-rhythms-are-changing-putting-species-and-ecosystems-at-risk","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s seasonal rhythms are changing, putting species and ecosystems at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-seasonal-rhythms-are-changing-putting-species-and-ecosystems-at-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seasonality shapes much of life on Earth. Most species, <a href=\"https:\/\/besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/pan3.10335\" target=\"_blank\">including humans<\/a>, have <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/icb\/article\/57\/5\/943\/4554931\" target=\"_blank\">synchronized their own rhythms<\/a> with those of the Earth\u2019s seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Plant growth cycles, the migration of billions of animals, and even aspects of human culture\u2014from harvest rituals to Japanese cherry blossom viewings\u2014are dictated by these dominant rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>However, climate change and many other human impacts are altering Earth\u2019s cycles. While humans can adapt their behavior by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-023-01899-8\" target=\"_blank\">shifting the timing of crop harvests or Indigenous fire-burning practices<\/a>, species are less able to adapt through evolution or range shifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seasonality shapes much of life on Earth. Most species, including humans, have synchronized their own rhythms with those of the Earth\u2019s seasons. Plant growth cycles, the migration of billions of animals, and even aspects of human culture\u2014from harvest rituals to Japanese cherry blossom viewings\u2014are dictated by these dominant rhythms. However, climate change and many other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,385,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-evolution","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215202","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}