{"id":891402,"date":"2026-02-10T04:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/intense-sunlight-reduces-plant-diversity-and-biomass-across-global-grasslands-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T04:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:12:24","slug":"intense-sunlight-reduces-plant-diversity-and-biomass-across-global-grasslands-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/intense-sunlight-reduces-plant-diversity-and-biomass-across-global-grasslands-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Intense sunlight reduces plant diversity and biomass across global grasslands, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The sun is the basis for photosynthesis, but not all plants thrive in strong sunlight. Strong sunlight constrains plant diversity and plant biomass in the world&#8217;s grasslands, a new study shows. Temperature, precipitation, and atmospheric nitrogen deposition have less impact on plant diversity. These results were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a research team led by Marie Spohn from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-intense-sunlight-diversity-biomass-global.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Lawanda Wiers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The sun is the basis for photosynthesis, but not all plants thrive in strong sunlight. Strong sunlight constrains plant diversity and plant biomass in the world&#8217;s grasslands, a new study shows. Temperature, precipitation, and atmospheric nitrogen deposition have less impact on plant diversity. These results were published in the Proceedings of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":891403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28968,536,22122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-intense","category-science-nature","category-sunlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}