{"id":3046,"date":"2011-01-26T19:02:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T03:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2011-01-26T19:02:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T03:02:33","slug":"look-its-a-coral-no-its-a-tumbleweed-no-its-a-rhodolith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/01\/26\/look-its-a-coral-no-its-a-tumbleweed-no-its-a-rhodolith\/","title":{"rendered":"LOOK it&#8217;s a coral, no it&#8217;s a tumbleweed, no it&#8217;s a rhodolith!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3048\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3048\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/pict0003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3048\" title=\"Rhodoliths at Emerald Bay, Catalina\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/pict0003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/pict0003.jpg 2848w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/pict0003-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/pict0003-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/pict0003-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rare rhodolith bed, found at only 6 bays\/coves in Catalina. (photo: S. Gabara)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Imagine tubleweeds spread across the ocean floor. \u00a0If you make them purple\/pink and living, then you have a rhodolith bed. \u00a0Rhodoliths are hard calcareous algae which have broken from the ground and formed a bed with other individuals. \u00a0Many invertebrates and algae species associate with this habitat.\u00a0 Rhodoliths are a hot study subject in Europe, where they are used as a soil conditioner.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3049\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3049\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/pict0056.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3049\" title=\"White Urchin Baby\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/pict0056.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/pict0056.jpg 2848w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/pict0056-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/pict0056-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/pict0056-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This white urchin recruit may use rhodoliths as a way to hide from predators. (photo: S. Gabara)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine tubleweeds spread across the ocean floor. \u00a0If you make them purple\/pink and living, then you have a rhodolith bed. \u00a0Rhodoliths are hard calcareous algae which have broken from the ground and formed a bed with other individuals. \u00a0Many invertebrates and algae species associate with this habitat.\u00a0 Rhodoliths are a hot study subject in Europe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}