{"id":1988,"date":"2026-07-06T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/plant-diversity-fell-in-the-wake-of-the-black-death\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:02:00","slug":"plant-diversity-fell-in-the-wake-of-the-black-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/plant-diversity-fell-in-the-wake-of-the-black-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant diversity fell in the wake of the Black Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study used the Black Death as a natural experiment, finding that medieval farming fostered Europe&#8217;s biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancedsciencenews.com\/black-death-affected-plant-diversity\/\">Plant diversity fell in the wake of the Black Death<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancedsciencenews.com\">Advanced Science News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancedsciencenews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Advanced Science News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study used the Black Death as a natural experiment, finding that medieval farming fostered Europe&#8217;s biodiversity. The post Plant diversity fell in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[325],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-advanced-science-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}