{"id":110,"date":"2018-04-24T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/?p=110"},"modified":"2018-05-18T09:11:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T09:11:51","slug":"impacts-of-invasive-alien-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/2018\/04\/24\/impacts-of-invasive-alien-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"IMPACTS OF INVASIVE ALIEN TREES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Invasive alien plants are a significant environmental problem in South Africa&#8217;s terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems (Richardson et al., 1997). Alien trees and shrubs increase above-ground biomass and evapotranspiration and thereby decrease both surface water runoff and groundwater recharge (G\u00f6rgens and Van Wilgen, 2004).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_111\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111\" style=\"width: 926px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-111 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/04\/file-20170911-1336-1ovqssw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"926\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/04\/file-20170911-1336-1ovqssw.jpg 926w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/04\/file-20170911-1336-1ovqssw-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/04\/file-20170911-1336-1ovqssw-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invasive alien plants are a significant environmental problem in South Africa&#8217;s terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems (Richardson et al., 1997). Alien trees and shrubs increase above-ground biomass and evapotranspiration and thereby decrease both surface water runoff and groundwater recharge (G\u00f6rgens and Van Wilgen, 2004).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}