{"id":22682,"date":"2021-10-16T13:37:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=22682"},"modified":"2021-10-16T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T17:37:42","slug":"the-science-behind-fall-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/10\/the-science-behind-fall-color\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science Behind Fall Color"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Now that fall colors are starting to appear down here in the higher elevations of the Southeast, you might be interested to know what causes the coloration in leaves. <em>The Garden Professors<\/em> posted a story about this a few years ago. You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenprofessors.com\/the-science-behind-fall-color\/?fbclid=IwAR1mfckYIdX1iZiXuSoFOFHyCXwJzGjkEqnIH4ld94LTeTkjCP3I77K-7h4\">here<\/a>. I am looking forward to seeing more color in the next month as it gets farther south into the region!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/farm-in-fall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/farm-in-fall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/farm-in-fall.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/farm-in-fall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/farm-in-fall-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Source: www.ForestWander.com, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that fall colors are starting to appear down here in the higher elevations of the Southeast, you might be interested to know what causes the coloration in leaves. The Garden Professors posted a story about this a few years ago. You can read more here. I am looking forward to seeing more color in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22684,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22682\/revisions\/22684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}