Juniper Publishers Ecology Open Access Journals

Juniper Publishers - Open Access Journal of Ecology   Reef Fish Diversity in Fish Apartement (Domus Frosiquilo/Equatorial Leaf) and Coral Cover. (Case Study in Jikomalamo Beach. Ternate. North Maluku. Indonesia) - juniper publishers Authored By:  Nebuchadnezzar Akbar Abstract Apartments fish is a development of the installation of basic FADs that have succeeded in increasing the availability of fish stocks. Observations showed that basic FADs had succeeded in collecting demersal fish, even juvenile marine biota were found attached to these basic FADs so that they were very beneficial for marine biota habitat. The location of data collection is divided into two, namely in the fish apartment area and outside the fish apartment area. Data collection on coral reefs and reef fish in apartment fish, the process of collecting data on coral reefs in apartment fish, is carried out by pulling transects vertically to the last limit of the apartment fish area. Collecting data ...

  Juniper Publishers - Open Access Journal of Ecology Introduction Natural treelines in high-mountain regions are considered as excellent and broad-scale indicators of biological responses to climate change and variability [1-10]. Since the early 20th century, treelines of different species have advanced by maximum 200-245 altitudinal meters in the Swedish Scandes, while the forest limit has changed substantially less in elevation [3,11]. Treeline is here taken in a broad sense, as the transition zone (ecotone) between the closed forest and the treeline proper, i.e. the highest trees of a specific species, with a minimum height of 2 m. Up to the present most studies have focused on the treeline with this narrow definition, since spatially-precise early 20th century measurements exist from a large area in the Swedish Scandes. Studies of the entire treeline ecotone are constrained by lack of stringent and repeatable old records and the strongly shifting structure and c...

Juniper Publishers - Open Access Journal of Ecology Introduction Natural treelines in high-mountain regions are considered as excellent and broad-scale indicators of biological responses to climate change and variability [1-10]. Since the early 20th century, treelines of different species have advanced by maximum 200-245 altitudinal meters in the Swedish Scandes, while the forest limit has changed substantially less in elevation [3,11]. Treeline is here taken in a broad sense, as the transition zone (ecotone) between the closed forest and the treeline proper, i.e. the highest trees of a specific species, with a minimum height of 2 m. Up to the present most studies have focused on the treeline with this narrow definition, since spatially-precise early 20th century measurements exist from a large area in the Swedish Scandes. Studies of the entire treeline ecotone are constrained by lack of stringent and repeatable old records and the strongly shifting structure and configu...

Juniper Publishers - Open Access Journal of Ecology Introduction Ecology is a relatively young science. Although its historical roots are quite deep, it was not until the second half of the 20th century that it became a separate and legitimate discipline within biology [1]. Ecology is the study of the myriad, complex interrelationships between and among living things and their environment, including how those interactions influence their survival. These ideas were early on adopted by another new discipline, the social sciences, with the earliest efforts to introduce ecological concepts found in the writings of Kurt Lewin [2]. However, four decades later noted psychologist, Urie Bronfenbrenner [3], utilized ecological constructs to formulate his Ecological Systems Theory and associated bio-ecological model. The model described how human development is influenced by myriad interactions between children and their environments, from the most immediate home ecological system, o...

  Juniper Publishers - Open Access Journal of Ecology Introduction How is the New Life Capsule NLC constructed and how does it work? The New Life Capsule NLC is a biological reactor whose idea is to create the right conditions for living together for algae and fungi. The algae would provide fungi with oxygen, and they would themselves take in the carbon dioxide necessary in the process of photosynthesis. The device has an advantage over the biological reactors used so far, because the influence of unfavorable weather conditions on the functioning of the biological reactor is significant. The New Life Capsule NLC has two most important structural elements. These are: the algal reactor A and the fungi reactor B. Algae develop in the upper reactor A. They need water and a mineral nutrient. Water appears in the condensed water station [1] as a result of changes in the temperature of the air heated during the day and cooled down during the night. Water flows by gravity to the...

  Juniper Publishers - Open Access Journal of Ecology Opinion Ecological conservation often stresses the limited capacity in the world we live in, and that the way to sustain our future is to conserve now. Innovation, on the other hand, stresses different (new) usages of existing resources. The two views often clash, not able to seek a compromise. As an example, at the Fifteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability earlier this year, my joint paper on “Digitizing Refugee Camps: Promotion of Mobile Communication for Charter Governance” was criticized for not being “environmental”, that a promotion of mobile communication for refugee camps will contribute to the problem of waste generated by mobile phones, adding to the recycling challenges on-going worldwide. The commentator advocated conservation, with emphasis on indigenous life in N. America. This sentiment echoes a conservation bill recently passed in the US House...