{"id":631,"date":"2019-08-11T07:48:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T07:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/?p=631"},"modified":"2019-08-26T15:14:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:14:53","slug":"research-identifies-restoration-hotspots-in-tropical-rainforests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2019\/08\/11\/research-identifies-restoration-hotspots-in-tropical-rainforests\/","title":{"rendered":"Research identifies restoration hotspots in tropical rainforests"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-644\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-644\" src=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Photo-landscape-panama.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Photo-landscape-panama.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Photo-landscape-panama-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Photo-landscape-panama-768x510.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Photo-landscape-panama-1024x680.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Nadine Laporte<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems professor\u00a0<strong>Scott Goetz<\/strong>\u00a0is co-author of a study published July 3 in\u00a0Science Advances. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/5\/7\/eaav3223\">Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes<\/a>\u201d identifies \u201crestoration hotspots\u201d\u2014100 million hectares of lost lowland tropical rainforests in 15 countries across four continents\u2014that could be restored now to boost the environment, biodiversity and climate change mitigation. \u201cTropical forest restoration and conservation go hand in hand,\u201d Goetz said, \u201cand there is much international political motivation to restore and conserve forests, so we need to collectively take advantage of this opportunity as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more in <a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/nau-research\/research-highlights-july-2019\/\">NAU News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems professor\u00a0Scott Goetz\u00a0is co-author of a study published July 3 in\u00a0Science Advances. \u201cGlobal restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes\u201d identifies \u201crestoration hotspots\u201d\u2014100 million hectares of lost lowland tropical rainforests in 15 countries across four continents\u2014that could be restored now to boost the environment, biodiversity and climate change mitigation. \u201cTropical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2019\/08\/11\/research-identifies-restoration-hotspots-in-tropical-rainforests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Research identifies restoration hotspots in tropical rainforests&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}