{"id":286,"date":"2018-11-19T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/geoeh\/?p=286"},"modified":"2018-12-26T19:29:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T19:29:47","slug":"joint-research-finding-reported-by-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/geoeh\/2018\/11\/19\/joint-research-finding-reported-by-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint research finding reported by The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"286\" class=\"elementor elementor-286 elementor-bc-flex-widget\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bfabb44 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bfabb44\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6047164\" data-id=\"6047164\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c3e4ca elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8c3e4ca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>New publication on <strong><i>Current Biology<\/i><\/strong>:<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/fulltext\/S0960-9822(18)31287-9#%20\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A vast 4,000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds<\/span>.<\/a>\u00a0This study explored the large-scale self-organization of a vast array of soil mounds constructed by termites (Syntermes dirus) that has persisted for up to 4000 years and covers an estimated 230,000 km\u00b2 of seasonally dry tropical forest in a relatively undisturbed and climatically stable region of Northeast Brazil.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0 \u00a0 This work received immediate\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">attention from both science fields and mass media once published.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The Washington Post reported this work on science\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">section and Dr. Yoo, one of the corresponding author of the study, was interviewed to disscuss the scientific findings. News coverage is\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">entitled: &#8220;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2018\/11\/19\/termites-built-natural-wonder-earth-size-minnesota\/?utm_term=.f3f7cfb6f57b\">This \u2018wonder of the Earth\u2019 is the size of Minnesota and built by bugs<\/a><\/span><\/em>&#8221; and is reported by\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Ben Guarino, a science reporter. <br \/><\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A similar report can be also found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/20\/science\/termite-mounds-brazil.html?login=email&amp;auth=login-email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a>. <br \/><\/span><\/li><\/ul><ul><li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A video abstract can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=150&amp;v=uXlS48mptbM\">Youtube<\/a>.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Continuous report from UB News Center &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalo.edu\/news\/releases\/2018\/12\/027.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a vast, ancient network of termite mounds, UB geographer finds a pattern<\/a>&#8220;<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New publication on Current Biology:\u00a0A vast 4,000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds.\u00a0This study explored the large-scale self-organization of a vast array of soil mounds constructed by termites (Syntermes dirus) that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/geoeh\/2018\/11\/19\/joint-research-finding-reported-by-the-washington-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joint research finding reported by The Washington Post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-news-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/geoeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/geoeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/geoeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/geoeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/geoeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/geoeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/geoeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/geoeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/geoeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/geoeh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}