{"id":511062,"date":"2024-05-07T17:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T20:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=511062"},"modified":"2024-05-07T17:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T20:25:04","slug":"the-water-hyacinth-is-the-most-invasive-plant-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/the-water-hyacinth-is-the-most-invasive-plant-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The water hyacinth is the most invasive plant in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_511095\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-511095 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-jacinto-de-agua-2023-10-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-jacinto-de-agua-2023-10-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-jacinto-de-agua-2023-10-800-250x321.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-jacinto-de-agua-2023-10-800-700x900.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-jacinto-de-agua-2023-10-800-120x154.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Paula Frasson\u2009\/\u2009Inaturalist<\/span>The common water hyacinth reduces fish populations by blocking sunlight<span class=\"media-credits\">Paula Frasson\u2009\/\u2009Inaturalist<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The water hyacinth (<em>Pontederia crassipes<\/em>), an aquatic plant commonly found in the South American basins of the Amazon River and the Rio de la Plata, is the most widespread invasive species in the world, according to a report by the UN\u2019s Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). In Lake Victoria, East Africa, the plant blocks sunlight and prevents oxygenation of the water, annihilating populations of tilapia, an important fishing resource. In addition to exporting species, the Americas also suffer invasions. \u201cOne example is <em>Limnoperna fortunei \u2014 <\/em>the golden mussel,\u201d says Ricardo Pinto Coelho, a retired biology professor from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, now the owner of RMPC Meio Ambiente Sustent\u00e1vel and the only Brazilian on the IPBES panel of experts. \u201cIn Brazilian waters, these mussels cause problems for aquaculture and the functioning of industrial operations when they become encrusted in refrigeration systems.\u201d Another example: the mosquito <em>Aedes aegypti<\/em>, originally from Africa, transmits the viruses that cause dengue, Zika, and other diseases. The report states that human activities have resulted in the spread of more than 37,000 species of plants, animals, and microorganisms, playing a central role in 60% of global extinctions. In 2019, the global economic cost of invasive species exceeded US$423 billion annually (ipbes.net, September 4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Report identifies the water hyacinth as the most widespread invasive species in the world","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[1651],"tags":[206,224],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-511062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-biodiversity","tag-ecology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511062","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=511062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511171,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511062\/revisions\/511171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511062"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=511062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}