{"id":252004,"date":"2018-02-07T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=252004\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:02:16","slug":"at-the-bottom-of-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/at-the-bottom-of-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"At the bottom of the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fotolab_site_ok.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-252005\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fotolab_site_ok-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>In July 2017, a team of researchers from several Brazilian institutions embarked upon the U.S. vessel <em>Alucia <\/em>to record the coral reefs along the equatorial banks of the Amazon River and in the maritime zone it affects, from the Brazilian states of Amap\u00e1 to Maranh\u00e3o. \u201cThe further west you go, biodiversity changes because of the river,\u201d explains biologist Gilberto Amado of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (JBRJ). In the photo, he (<em>next to pilot<\/em>) is preparing to dive 300 meters into the Amazon canyon, together with the pilot of the submersible.\u00a0 \u201cIn the deeper areas, you don\u2019t find much diversity.\u00a0 The most interesting dives happen above 150 meters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Image submitted by marine biologist Fernando Moraes, a researcher at the Research Institute of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (JBRJ)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the bottom of the Amazon","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[206,209,239,252,266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-252004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photolab","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-geography","tag-oceanography","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252004"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=252004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}