{"id":1099,"date":"2009-06-14T08:08:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T12:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2009-06-14T08:16:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T12:16:43","slug":"the-conquerors-biotic-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/06\/14\/the-conquerors-biotic-army\/","title":{"rendered":"The conqueror&#8217;s biotic army"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 122px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vimooz.com\/festivalticker\/public_html\/festivalticker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/oilblue.jpg\" alt=\"still from Oil Blue, Directed by Elli Rintala. Finland. \" width=\"122\" height=\"81\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">still from Oil Blue, Directed by Elli Rintala. Finland. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 89px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.issg.org\/database\/species\/images\/ecology_thumbnail\/mnem_n2.gif\" alt=\"The alien ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi (Comb Jelly)\" width=\"89\" height=\"98\" \/><br \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> Mnemiopsis leidyi (Comb Jelly)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oil tanker ballast water has carried the beautiful invasive comb jelly to a myriad of seas, where is successfully settled. There is an argument that conquering peoples (or ideologies) are accompanied by a successful invasion of accompanying non-human animal allies, who help settle the land in new ways that upended the unprepared native inhabitants. Of course, this often backfires (as do conquerors).<\/p>\n<p>see the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.issg.org\/database\/species\/ecology.asp?fr=1&amp;si=95\"> ISSG global invasive species database<\/a><\/p>\n<p>see also the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0521546184?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=omat-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0521546184\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe&#8221; Alfred W Crosby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil tanker ballast water has carried the beautiful invasive comb jelly to a myriad of seas, where is successfully settled. There is an argument that conquering peoples (or ideologies) are accompanied by a successful invasion of accompanying non-human animal allies, who help settle the land in new ways that upended the unprepared native inhabitants. Of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/06\/14\/the-conquerors-biotic-army\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The conqueror&#8217;s biotic army&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}