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Volume 27 Number 1 Year 2018

11 articles in this issue 

Sheila Serrano Vincenti

We started 2018 with excellent news, our Journal of Life Sciences, La Granja is indexed in the Emerging Source Citation Index ESCI of the prestigious Web of Science, singoftheexcellenceandscienti?cqualityofourpublication, becoming us the ?rst journal in e... see more

 

Manuel Esteban Maldonado, Ramón Casals Costa, Xavier Such Martí, María Cristina Narváez Riofrío

Amid globalization, traditional products with low adaptability lose market share. Considering that one of the main limitation of traditional products is their marketability under minimum quality standards, the following question arises: Is it possible to ... see more

 

Javier Andrés Casteblanco

Cacao (Theobroma cacao) worldwide has increased its area sown and yield per hectare, however currently producers are facing strong legislation issued by the European Union regarding the maximum levels of lead and cadmium that must have chocolates that con... see more

 

Esteban Terneus Jácome, Patricio Yanez-Moretta

This work was developed as a complement to the ecological restoration component contemplated within the framework of action of the Environmental Management Plan of FONAG (Fund for Water Conservation), an institution attached to the Municipality of Quito. ... see more

 

Carlos Alberto Jumbo-Salazar, Carla Daniela Arévalo Delgado, Lenin J. Ramirez-Cando

To stablish the ef?ciency of the forest in the subject of ecological services and ecosystems functions, involve to discover the conditions to set its performance, which ones that keep the relationship with the functional characteristics of the vegetable s... see more

 

Carlos Danilo Congo Yépez, Francisco Javier Velástegui Lara, Carlos Estuardo Caicedo Vargas, Luis Fernando Rodríguez Iturralde, Antonio Plutarco Vera Zambrano, Andersson Omar Montero Cruz

Fifty paddocks of ten years of establishment associated with tree species were randomly selected; an inventory of all dispersed species with breast height diameters (DBH)=5 cm was made. Dasometric variables as DBH, total height and crown area were measure... see more

 

Diego Marcelo Caicedo Rosero, Hernán Rigoberto Benavides Rosales, Luis Alfredo Carvajal Pérez, Jessica Paola Ortega Hernández

This research shows a preliminary study of macrofauna in silvopastoral soils for milk production, whose objective was to evaluate the soil’s population biota in silvopastoral systems whit next combinations: aliso (Alnus acuminata) and fodder mixture, acac... see more

 

Barlin Orlando Olivares

Variability and climate change are having a strong impact on different meteorological variables; inducing changes in the precipitation pattern that directly affects water availability in agroecosystems. It is for this reason that the objective of this wor... see more

 

Renato Gabriel Sánchez, Katty J. García Gualoto

In the rural regions of Latin America, wastewater treatment systems are based on conventional technologies such as the septic tanks. These treatment systems do not support biodegradability indexes lower than 0,4 measured in the form of BOD5/COD, values ob... see more

 

Luis Miguel Santillán Quiroga, Lorena Paola Paredes Pacheco

The importance of this work is the implementation of a natural treatment with low environmental impact. The objective was to evaluate effective microorganisms for there movalofhydrogensul?deon activated sludges of the industrial wastewaters. For the exper... see more

 

Eloy Guillermo De la Cruz, Paola Simbaña Díaz, Nancy Bonifaz

The objective of this research was to analyze the monitoring of good livestock practices of small and medium milk producers in the province of Carchi, with a entailment project under an inter-institutional agreement between the Salesian Polytechnic Univer... see more