{"id":682,"date":"2009-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-261\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:09","slug":"innovation-anthology-261","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2009\/10\/15\/innovation-anthology-261\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #261:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 261.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe <b>Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute<\/b> collects data on flora and fauna from points set 20 kilometers apart across the entire province.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe<b> first report<\/b> from this Institute focused on<b> birds and vascular plants<\/b> in <b>northeastern Alberta, <\/b>a region where oil sands and forestry companies are active.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile the report indicates the current state of biodiversity in the region is 94 percent intact, some <b>non-native species <\/b>are moving in.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nJim Herbers <\/b>of the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute explains.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nJIM HERBERS: <\/b><em>  To name a few, the American Crow, the common dandelion, some of the European or non-native clovers seem to be expanding and aggressively starting to colonize the northeastern part of the province.       On the flip side of that, when we are  talking about species declining or becoming much rarer, the species that we looked at, the organisms that we looked at, there\u2019s no strong evidence that many of the species are declining today.  <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to Jim Herbers, this colonization by non-native species is associated with increased agriculture, urbanization and the building of roads and utility corridors for industry.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><b><br \/>\nLearn more at InnovationAnthology.com<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02009-10-15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute<\/b> collects data on flora and fauna from points set 20 kilometers apart across the entire province.   The first report from this Institute focused on <b>birds and vascular plants<\/b> in northeastern Alberta, a region where oil sands and forestry companies are active.  While the report indicates the current state of biodiversity in the region is 94 percent intact, some <b>non-native species<\/b> are moving in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-forests","category-wildlife","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2-260jim_herbers.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4579,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/4579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}