{"id":12,"date":"2008-03-04T15:03:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/?p=12"},"modified":"2009-06-29T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T20:56:10","slug":"field-talk-elephant-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/field-talk-elephant-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with Rob Pringle, a graduate student in ecology at Stanford University. Pringle authored a paper in the Ecological Society of America\u2019s January 2008 edition of <em>Ecology<\/em>. While working at the Mpala Research Center in Kenya, East Africa, Pringle found that geckos were thriving in areas where elephants had torn up trees and shrubs. The resulting crevices offered the lizards hiding places. In contrast, undamaged areas harbored scarcely any geckos. By looking at such \u2018ecosystem engineering,\u2019 Pringle and his collaborators hope to gain a better understanding of how the African savanna functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with Rob Pringle, a graduate student in ecology at Stanford University. Pringle authored a paper in the Ecological Society of America\u2019s January 2008 edition of Ecology. While working at the Mpala Research Center in Kenya, East Africa, Pringle<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/field-talk-elephant-engineers\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}