{"id":7,"date":"2023-05-10T14:24:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2023-05-12T19:46:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T19:46:52","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Meiobenthos<\/h1>\n<p>Welcome to the website of the <strong>International Association of Meiobenthologists<\/strong>. We are a global community of researchers focused on the study of the meiobenthos, organisms which live in sediments (marine and freshwater) or on secondary substrates (e.g. seaweeds). The meiobenthos includes microscopic invertebrates (the <strong>meiofauna<\/strong> less than 1 mm in size), <strong>protista<\/strong> (e.g. ciliates and foraminifera), and the <strong>microphytobenthos<\/strong> (the microscopic algae that live on\/in sediments).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Meiofauna-Mosaic-1.png\" alt=\"A mosaic of meiobenthic organisms\" width=\"1123\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Meiofauna-Mosaic-1.png 1123w, https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Meiofauna-Mosaic-1-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Meiofauna-Mosaic-1-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Meiofauna-Mosaic-1-768x543.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1123px) 100vw, 1123px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the next few months we will develop the website to include more and more content on the meiobenthos, and not just for specialists! We are planning to add a section of <strong>Educational Materials<\/strong> in a wide diversity of languages to promote meiobenthology to future students and the wider public worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Meiobenthos Welcome to the website of the International Association of Meiobenthologists. We are a global community of researchers focused on the study of the meiobenthos, organisms which live in sediments (marine and freshwater) or on secondary substrates (e.g. seaweeds). The meiobenthos includes microscopic invertebrates (the meiofauna less than 1 mm in size), protista (e.g. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}