{"675082":{"#nid":"675082","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Coral reef recovery could get a boost from an unlikely source: Sea cucumbers, the janitors of the seafloor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESea cucumbers, scavengers of the seafloor that resemble the cylindrical vegetable, have been consumed as a delicacy in Asia for centuries. But in recent decades, they\u2019ve been severely overharvested to a point that they are now quite rare. New research that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-hay\u0022\u003EMark E. Hay\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents Chair and the Harry and Anna Teasley Chair in Environmental Biology, helped conduct suggests their repopulation \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-024-45730-0\u0022\u003Ecould play an important role in protecting and revitalizing\u003C\/a\u003E another type of endangered marine organism: corals. (This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/statesville.com\/news\/nation-world\/science\/coral-reef-recovery-could-get-a-boost-from-an-unlikely-source-sea-cucumbers-the-janitors\/article_56d595aa-1921-52f2-92a3-36e0165cf6e4.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStatesville Record and Landmark\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESea cucumbers, scavengers of the seafloor that resemble the cylindrical vegetable, have been consumed as a delicacy in Asia for centuries. But in recent decades, they\u2019ve been severely overharvested to a point that they are now quite rare. New research that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-hay\u0022\u003EMark E. Hay\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents Chair and the Harry and Anna Teasley Chair in Environmental Biology, helped conduct suggests their repopulation \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-024-45730-0\u0022\u003Ecould play an important role in protecting and revitalizing\u003C\/a\u003E another type of endangered marine organism: corals. (This also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/statesville.com\/news\/nation-world\/science\/coral-reef-recovery-could-get-a-boost-from-an-unlikely-source-sea-cucumbers-the-janitors\/article_56d595aa-1921-52f2-92a3-36e0165cf6e4.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStatesville Record and Landmark\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-06-11 17:54:45","changed_gmt":"2024-06-24 20:39:29","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Conversation ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/coral-reef-recovery-could-get-a-boost-from-an-unlikely-source-sea-cucumbers-the-janitors-of-the-seafloor-227212","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"193538","name":"sea cucumber"},{"id":"14760","name":"coral reef"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"}],"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":""}}}