{"673333":{"#nid":"673333","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Overharvesting Threatens Sea Cucumbers\u0027 Role To Keep Coral Healthy, Study Warns","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a new report by the led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-hay\u0022\u003EMark Hay\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=hIj0CIAAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003ECody Clements\u003C\/a\u003E, the School of Biological Sciences researchers\u0026nbsp;raised concerns about the overharvesting of sea cucumbers that can harm the coral reefs. According to the study published in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/feature\/sea-cucumber\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, sea cucumbers are crucial to ensuring clean reef sediments and preventing the spread of microbial pathogens \u2014 and their apparent decline is bad news for coral reefs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a new report by the led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-hay\u0022\u003EMark Hay\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=hIj0CIAAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003ECody Clements\u003C\/a\u003E, the School of Biological Sciences researchers\u0026nbsp;raised concerns about the overharvesting of sea cucumbers that can harm the coral reefs. According to the study published in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/feature\/sea-cucumber\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, sea cucumbers are crucial to ensuring clean reef sediments and preventing the spread of microbial pathogens \u2014 and their apparent decline is bad news for coral reefs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35575","created_gmt":"2024-03-05 17:10:44","changed_gmt":"2024-03-05 17:10:43","author":"adavidson38","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature World News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.natureworldnews.com\/articles\/60797\/20240227\/overharvesting-threatens-sea-cucumbers-role-keep-coral-healthy-study-warns.htm","dateline":{"date":"2024-02-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-02-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"565971","name":"Ocean Science and Engineering (OSE)"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"180327","name":"coral disease"},{"id":"10936","name":"Biodiversity"},{"id":"172031","name":"ocean health"}],"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":""}}}