{"id":4293,"date":"2026-04-23T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/?page_id=4293"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:53:09","slug":"degradation-of-benthos-bui-6-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/?page_id=4293","title":{"rendered":"Degradation of Benthos (BUI #6)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PXL_20201201_193518261-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3345\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PXL_20201201_193518261-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PXL_20201201_193518261-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PXL_20201201_193518261-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PXL_20201201_193518261-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PXL_20201201_193518261-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PXL_20201201_193518261-350x263.jpg 350w, http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PXL_20201201_193518261-24x18.jpg 24w, http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PXL_20201201_193518261-36x27.jpg 36w, http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PXL_20201201_193518261-48x36.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This BUI assesses the health of benthic organisms, which are small animals that live on or in bottom sediments. These organisms play an important role in aquatic food webs and are sensitive to pollution and habitat degradation. Changes in benthic communities can provide early warning signs of environmental stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/?page_id=4562\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/?page_id=4562\">Check The Canadian Status Here<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Check The US Status Here<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This BUI assesses the health of benthic organisms, which are small animals that live on or in bottom sediments. These organisms play an important role in aquatic food webs and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/?page_id=4293\">Continue Reading &amp;rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4293\/revisions\/4680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bpac.algomau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}