{"609082":{"#nid":"609082","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"OVERFISHING CAUSED AN INCREASE OF \u0027CORAL TICKS\u0027 THAT HARM CORAL REEFS","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoral reefs\u0026#39; survival from overfishing, climate change, and other threats is jeopardized by a thumbnail-sized snail that preys on the coral species that environmentalists hope could revive damaged reefs.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;The Porites coral is kind of the last man standing, the last hope for some of these reefs coming back, and they are the ones these snails selectively prey on,\u0026rdquo; \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-hay\u0022\u003EMark Hay\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, a biologist at Georgia Tech and author on the study. \u0026ldquo;As you get fewer and fewer corals, the snails focus on the fewer and fewer of these colonies that remain. This is part of the downward spiral of the reefs.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-07-30 14:38:49","changed_gmt":"2018-07-30 14:38:49","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Elizabeth Kornegay","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/coral-tick-increasing-reefs-harm-1046046","dateline":{"date":"2018-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"524331":{"id":"524331","type":"image","title":"Mark Hay","body":null,"created":"1460995200","gmt_created":"2016-04-18 16:00:00","changed":"1475895296","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:56","alt":"Mark Hay","file":{"fid":"205453","name":"mark.hay_.capture.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mark.hay_.capture_3.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mark.hay_.capture_3.png","mime":"image\/png","size":2444763,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mark.hay_.capture_3.png?itok=9VnhgwUs"}}},"media_ids":["524331"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"100711","name":"coral reefs"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}