{"id":313,"date":"2014-12-01T14:38:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T14:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wrweo.ca\/wp\/?p=313"},"modified":"2014-12-01T14:41:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T14:41:58","slug":"jellification-of-our-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrweo.ca\/wp\/2014\/12\/01\/jellification-of-our-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jellification of our lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cbc.ca\/quirks\/images\/handful_holopedium.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"jelly plankton\"  class=\"alignleft\" \/>Studies by Jon Smol and colleagues at Queens University on lakes in Nova Scotia and Ontario reveal a very worrisome trend &#8211; a change in the phytoplankton species associated with declining calcium levels.  &#8220;Without calcium entering the lakes in run-off, some crustaceans at the base of the aquatic food chain, which make their exoskeletons from the mineral, are at a disadvantage, and they&#8217;re being displaced by species that have an jelly-like coating. These jelly-organisms are inedible to many predators, and disruptive to the lakes&#8217; ecological balance.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/quirks\/2014\/11\/22\/2014-11-22-1\/\">CBC report)<\/a>. Acid rain combined with inherently poorly buffered soils, especially in SW Nova Scotia, is the major driver; clearcutting is also cited as a factor. View references on our <a href=\"http:\/\/wrweo.ca\/wp\/?page_id=70#acidification\">Water Quality Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies by Jon Smol and colleagues at Queens University on lakes in Nova Scotia and Ontario reveal a very worrisome trend &#8211; a change in the phytoplankton species associated with declining calcium levels. &#8220;Without calcium entering the lakes in run-off, some crustaceans at the base of the aquatic food chain, which make their exoskeletons from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wrweo.ca\/wp\/2014\/12\/01\/jellification-of-our-lakes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jellification of our lakes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrweo.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrweo.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrweo.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrweo.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrweo.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wrweo.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/wrweo.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrweo.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrweo.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrweo.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}