{"id":8219,"date":"2016-09-01T16:42:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T20:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2016-09-01T16:42:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T20:42:39","slug":"how-and-why-trees-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/09\/how-and-why-trees-break\/","title":{"rendered":"How and why trees break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Hurricane Hermine is coming onshore soon, there is bound to be a lot of damage to trees across the Southeast. \u00a0Here is an interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidescience.org\/content\/break-trees\/3671\">article<\/a> from <em>Inside Science<\/em> on how and why trees break. \u00a0In the case of a hurricane, a lot of tree damage also comes not from the tree breaking but being uprooted. \u00a0Wet soils can fail to support the tree roots, leaving them vulnerable to tip over in moderate to high winds. \u00a0A lot of the tree damage from Hermine may well come from the uprooted trees because of the heavy rainfall that is forecast (or has already started falling) along the path.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6013\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6013\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Jibi44, Commons Wikimedia via Science\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/sn-treesbreak-245x138.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jibi44, Commons Wikimedia via Science<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Hurricane Hermine is coming onshore soon, there is bound to be a lot of damage to trees across the Southeast. \u00a0Here is an interesting article from Inside Science on how and why trees break. \u00a0In the case of a hurricane, a lot of tree damage also comes not from the tree breaking but being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","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=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8220,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions\/8220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}