scholarly journals Medicinal and Environmental Indicator Species ofUtriculariafrom Montane Forest of Peninsular Malaysia

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Noorma Wati Haron ◽  
Ming Yee Chew
Keyword(s):  
Indicator Species ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Montane Forest ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Low Ph ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Environmental Indicator ◽  
Forest Edges ◽  
Pristine Forest

The carnivorousUtricularia(Lentibulariaceae) is a small herb of multifarious wet habitats worldwide. Eleven of the 14 Peninsular Malaysian species range into the mountains. Distribution, disturbance adaptability and collection frequency were used to formulate their commonness category. Common (U. aurea,U. bifida, andU. minutissima) and fairly common (U. gibbaandU. uliginosa) species are mostly lowland plants that ascend to open montane microhabitats, while the fairly common (U. striatula), narrow-range (U. caeruleapink form andU. involvens), rare (U. furcellataandU. scandens), and endemic (U. vitellina) species are restricted to mountainous sites. Common species that colonise dystrophic to oligotrophic man-made sites in late succession could serve as predictors for general health and recovery of wet habitats. Rarer species are often locally abundant, their niches situated around pristine forest edges. When in decline, they indicate the beginning of problems affecting the forest.Utriculariais reportedly nutritious, mildly astringent, and diuretic. Preadapted to nutrient-poor, waterlogged soils,U. bifidais suitable as an alternative for small-scale herb cultivation on low pH, wet poor soils usually deemed not suitable for any crops.

scholarly journals Small-scale societies exhibit fundamental variation in the role of intentions in moral judgment

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (17) ◽  
pp. 4688-4693 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Clark Barrett ◽  
Alexander Bolyanatz ◽  
Alyssa N. Crittenden ◽  
Daniel M. T. Fessler ◽  
Simon Fitzpatrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Moral Assessment ◽  
Mitigating Circumstances

Intent and mitigating circumstances play a central role in moral and legal assessments in large-scale industrialized societies. Although these features of moral assessment are widely assumed to be universal, to date, they have only been studied in a narrow range of societies. We show that there is substantial cross-cultural variation among eight traditional small-scale societies (ranging from hunter-gatherer to pastoralist to horticulturalist) and two Western societies (one urban, one rural) in the extent to which intent and mitigating circumstances influence moral judgments. Although participants in all societies took such factors into account to some degree, they did so to very different extents, varying in both the types of considerations taken into account and the types of violations to which such considerations were applied. The particular patterns of assessment characteristic of large-scale industrialized societies may thus reflect relatively recently culturally evolved norms rather than inherent features of human moral judgment.

ISOLATION OF BACTERIA FROM THE ACIDIC PEAT SWAMP FOREST SOIL AND THEIR LIGNIN DEGRADATION POTENTIAL

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhamad Aidilfitri Mohamad Roslan ◽  
Nur Azam Amirudin ◽  
Zaima Azira Zainal Abidin ◽  
Suhaila Mohd Omar
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Sequence Similarity ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Sampling Location ◽  
Water Medium ◽  
Swamp Forest ◽  
Peat Swamp Forest ◽  
Peat Swamp ◽  
Rdna Sequencing

The tropical peat swamp forest in Malaysia has reduced significantly due to increasing pressure for development and demand for agricultural land. Pekan peat swamp forest is part of the 200,000 hectares of peat swamp forest located in Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia. While more extensive studies were done on flora and fauna, the study on microbial diversity in this habitat is very limited. The highly acidic environment, low concentrations of nutrients and anoxic condition of the peat are among challenges that hampered the cultivation of microorganism from this environment. In this study two types of agar-based medium, M1 minimal medium (M1) and peat water medium (PW) supplemented with glucose, methanol and lignin were used to isolate bacteria from the peat sediment. In comparison to M1, the use of PW has resulted with higher number of isolates with different morphologies. The PW mainly contains the acidic peat water that was collected from the sampling location. Based on the growth on medium supplemented with lignin, selected isolates were identified using 16s rDNA sequencing. At least three of the isolates showed sequence similarity to Burkholderia sp., which is one of the common species, studied on their ligninase-producing abilities. The results from this study serve as the preliminary data for further work on growth characteristics and enzymatic potential of isolates from acidic peat swamp soil.

Identification and characterisation of metallothioneins from environmental indicator species as potential biomonitors

1999 ◽  
pp. 621-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ceri A. Morris ◽  
Stephen Stürzenbaum ◽  
Beate Nicolaus ◽  
A. John Morgan ◽  
John L. Harwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indicator Species ◽  
Environmental Indicator

A New Orchid Species of Dendrobium Sect. Calcarifera from Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia (Orchidaceae: Dendrobiinae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 383 (2) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
EDWARD ENTALAI BESI ◽  
DOME NIKONG ◽  
MUSKHAZLI MUSTAFA ◽  
RUSEA GO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Montane Forest ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Orchid Species ◽  
Summit Region ◽  
A New Species

Dendrobium mizanii, a new species to science belonging to Dendrobium Sect. Calcarifera was discovered in a summit region of a disturbed montane forest in Setiu, Terengganu, and named after His Majesty Sultan of Terengganu, Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin. A description, illustration, field and comparison with the closely related species D. crocatum from Peninsular Malaysia and D. doloissumbinii from Borneo are provided here.

scholarly journals Codonoboea (Gesneriaceae) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia, including three new species

PhytoKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Ruth Kiew ◽  
Chung-Lu Lim
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Montane Forest ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
The State ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest ◽  
Botanical Exploration ◽  
Three New Species

Of the 92 Codonoboea species that occur in Peninsular Malaysia, 20 are recorded from the state of Terengganu, of which 9 are endemic to Terengganu including three new species, C. norakhirrudiniana Kiew, C. rheophytica Kiew and C. sallehuddiniana C.L.Lim, that are here described and illustrated. A key and checklist to all the Terengganu species are provided. The majority of species grow in lowland rain forest, amongst which C. densifolia and C. rheophytica are rheophytic. Only four grow in montane forest. The flora of Terengganu is still incompletely known, especially in the northern part of the state and in mountainous areas and so, with botanical exploration, more new species can be expected in this speciose genus.

Forest edges and the soil-vegetation- atmosphere interaction at the landscape scale: the state of affairs

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur W. L. Veen ◽  
Wim Klaassen ◽  
Bart Kruijt ◽  
Ronald W.A. Hutjes
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Forest Edge ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Forest Edges ◽  
Surface Type ◽  
Heterogeneous Landscape ◽  
Atmosphere Interaction ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Impact

Although the soil-vegetation-atmosphere exchange of momentum and heat is fairly well understood for many types of homogeneous surfaces, the disturbances created by tran sitions of one surface type to another remain to be analysed more fully. This is especially true for the impact which a large transition such as the forest edge has on the average fluxes in a small-scale heterogeneous landscape with forest. Recently acquired experimental evidence appears to some extent contradictory and at variance with conventional concepts.

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