{"id":312,"date":"2018-08-10T21:56:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T21:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/?p=312"},"modified":"2018-08-26T17:18:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T17:18:33","slug":"average-growth-of-acacia-saligna-from-the-22nd-of-july-and-27th-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/2018\/08\/10\/average-growth-of-acacia-saligna-from-the-22nd-of-july-and-27th-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Average growth of (Acacia saligna) from the 22nd of July and 27th July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Two parameters; stem diameter and tree height were measured at Atlantis\u00a0 on the 22nd of June and 27th of July 2018 in a field of <em>Acacia saligna<\/em>, and this was done to compare the growth of trees over a short period of time. Based on the results it shows that the growth of the trees have increased slightly over a month&#8217;s period. The increase in growth was influenced by the climatic conditions in that area . NB: the trees were receiving enough rainfall during the month of June and July and they were exposed to enough sunlight to favor their growth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The major questions are how much will these invasive alien trees grow over a year and how much of groundwater will they utilize during summer when less rainfall is received\u00a0 in the Western Cape province?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-321 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/08\/new.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/08\/new.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/08\/new-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/08\/new-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two parameters; stem diameter and tree height were measured at Atlantis\u00a0 on the 22nd of June and 27th of July 2018 in a field of Acacia saligna, and this was done to compare the growth of trees over a short period of time. Based on the results it shows that the growth of the trees &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/2018\/08\/10\/average-growth-of-acacia-saligna-from-the-22nd-of-july-and-27th-july-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Average growth of (Acacia saligna) from the 22nd of July and 27th July 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-312","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\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}