{"id":714,"date":"2018-11-08T10:08:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T10:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/?p=714"},"modified":"2018-11-08T10:08:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T10:08:54","slug":"roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/PEYE1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-716\" src=\"http:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/PEYE1-1024x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"307\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was a speaker at the 2018 Arboricultural Association conference held at Exeter. Videos of the talks (including mine) are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trees.org.uk\/Amenity-Conference\/Soils-and-Trees-Presentations#mondaypm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I explain, my presentation was built on <a href=\"http:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php\/literature\/the-war-between-trees-and-grasses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The War Between Trees and Grasses<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, this time focusing on underground warfare and the evolution of roots and soils. It turns out that events in the rhizosphere have had an unexpectedly large influence on global change over millions of years, and <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/gcb.12816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>continue to be critical<\/strong><\/a> in this era of climate uncertainty.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a speaker at the 2018 Arboricultural Association conference held at Exeter. Videos of the talks (including mine) are here. As I explain, my presentation was built on The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidthomas.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}