{"id":33,"date":"2019-02-01T19:20:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T19:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?p=33"},"modified":"2023-07-01T12:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T12:23:43","slug":"concerning-news-1feb2019-padina-sanctae-crucis-disappears-from-vauxhall-reef-barbados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/2019\/02\/01\/concerning-news-1feb2019-padina-sanctae-crucis-disappears-from-vauxhall-reef-barbados\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerning News : Padina sanctae-crucis disappears from Vauxhall Reef, Barbados 1Feb2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE July 1, 2023: In the Vauxhall Reef area this past winter I observed healthy Padina, but not on the reef flat where it had once been abundant, rather it was on  rocks near shore in the beach area.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nGoing through my recent and older photographs of the reef flat on Vauxhall Reef, I realized that Padina sanctae-crucis was absent in my recent 2019 photos, but was present in photos taken in each of the winters of 2015,2016, 2017 and 2018. So<\/p>\n<p>I checked the area out over the last couple of days, and also traversed nearby fringing reefs over about 800 m towards the north. <\/p>\n<p>Nada.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what that means, but on Jan 30, 2019 asked on the CORALL Facebook page whether anyone else has noticed the plant recently.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCORALLBarbados%2Fposts%2F1407599042729595&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"504\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not necessarily bad, for example, the loss of <em>P. sanctae-crucis<\/em> might be due to increased feeding by nearshore herbiverous fishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE July 1, 2023: In the Vauxhall Reef area this past winter I observed healthy Padina, but not on the reef flat where it had once been abundant, rather it was on rocks near shore in the beach area. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/2019\/02\/01\/concerning-news-1feb2019-padina-sanctae-crucis-disappears-from-vauxhall-reef-barbados\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holetown-area","category-seaweeds","category-vauxhall-reef"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}