{"id":212,"date":"2018-05-17T13:23:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T13:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/?p=212"},"modified":"2018-05-17T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:45:34","slug":"field-visit-17-05-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/2018\/05\/17\/field-visit-17-05-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Visit (17\/05\/2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Today we took a trip to Atlantis with my Host supervisors Dr. Mark Gush and Dr. Richard Bugan. We did field selection, inspection of the trees and marking of territory of\u00a0 where we will install our HPV system. The HPV system is used to measure the sap flow in the trees to show how much water is being lost through evapotranspiration.\u00a0 It was an interesting journey to learn about the different types of invasive alien trees growing\u00a0 in the area and luckily enough I saw how they are being cut down and controlled from growing any further. These alien invasive trees extract water from the aquifer which is a source of water for the Atlantis community.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-209 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-17-at-14.02.10-e1526565943814.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"954\" height=\"548\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we took a trip to Atlantis with my Host supervisors Dr. Mark Gush and Dr. Richard Bugan. We did field selection, inspection of the trees and marking of territory of\u00a0 where we will install our HPV system. The HPV system is used to measure the sap flow in the trees to show how much &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/2018\/05\/17\/field-visit-17-05-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Field Visit (17\/05\/2018)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-212","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\/212","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=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}