Bryan's+Journal

JOURNAL 1: FREE WRITE

My place of research was Makiki Stream. Makiki Stream is located on Makiki Heights road and you have to go way past the pumping station in order to arrive at the recreational center. Along my adventure to the Stream's recreational center, I saw a numerous amount of houses that adapted to the stream. So I would think that the stream is influenced by something else other than the natural world. I also saw an abundance of Banana trees right on the edge of the water. I do not know whether or not that those Banana trees were there because of humans or the natural world. The stream is very interesting because like Manoa Stream there is also a long hike, but Makiki Stream is a loop hike meaning you will end up in the same place if you keep following the path. There were also dogs allowed on the hike, this means that the dogs may have pooped and caused things to not be natural. In order to see the stream I had to hike along the path. I noticed that almost every rock that was in the shade had fungi/fungus everywhere on it, but these rocks were not in the water but in the shade. The rock in the water had them to but not as much as the rocks in the shade. I also noticed that a majority of green plants. Other than bird's occasionally swooping down from nowhere and chirping in the background, there were no noticeable organisms anywhere and not even in the water, maybe they were just hiding from us. I also didn't see or feel any mosquitoes near the flowing stream. Further up the hike I noticed there was a dry stream bed with some stagnant water. That's when the mosquitoes started biting. After losing them I saw steep mountain cliffs and trees with their roots maneuvering their way down the cliff face and into the water. There was a very fast flowing breeze when I arrived next to the cliff. That's when I saw giants trees with vines covering it and other things growing on it. I then had to back because I didn't feel like getting tangled in weeds in the narrow path ahead of me. I think that the real competition around here is for sunlight and water.

JOURNAL 1: ASSIGNED ENTRY

The stream has a whole bunch of abiotic factors. There are a lot of rocks even rocks that have been excavated from another place and brought to Makiki. The cloud is another factor because if there is no sunlight then the organisms that use photosynthesis will be affected. Height or better yet altitude plays a huge role because it affects what organisms may occupy it. The birds may have the higher altitudes in the trees and the centipedes may occupy the lower altitudes in the ground. So there are a lot of abiotic factors that the stream has. All the animals that can be found here. I thought that there was not any life or not a lot of life around Makiki Stream but it seems like there are more than 10 animals here and they can be found in the water. Maybe these species are at an all time low and that's why I couldn't see anything in the stream whenever I looked. The vines crawling up the tree.

I also noticed that there were signs saying that the water contains LEPTOSPIROSIS. Leptospirosis is a disease that is most commonly transferred through freshwater. The freshwater gets contaminated because of animal urine. You can't get it just because you touch contaminated water, but you can get it if you have a cut or an opening in your skin. Unfortunately I was not able to get a better picture of the vines crawling up the tree but here is a picture of that occuring, this is not at Makiki Stream but it's an example.

I think that the vines on top the tree are signs of a symbiotic relationship. I think that the relationship they share is a pariotic relationship. The vines go on top of the tree taking the sunlight away from it deplenting it's nutrients from the sun and then the tree will eventually die. This is a pariotic relationship because the vines are benefiting and the tree is being harmed.

Another relationship that is easily recognized is the pariotic relationship with mosquitoes and anything that has blood for it. For example I walked out of that stream with a number of bites. Mosquitoes are also noxious to any organism that has blood. Besides being an annoying pest and having an itching affect afterward these things carry deadly diseases. That is what makes it a pariotic relationship. The mosquito benefits from the blood it takes from the host and host may have a chance of getting a deadly disease. So that is why it is a pariotic relationship.

JOURNAL 2: FREE WRITE

My abiotic and biotic factors that I have chosen for the second part of this journal entry would be the tree life or the organisms that are taller than about 8 feet. A very weird and abiotic important factor that I may have found is the amount of sunlight there is in one place. When I looked at the trees at the beginning of the hike I noticed that the trees were not as congested with vines and there was not as much competition as it was further down the trail. I may be wrong because I really could not clearly see the very top of the trees, but I did see lots of gaps which allowed the sunlight to hit the ground for other plants to harness the sunlight and use photosynthesis. I have one explanation for this. My explanation is that the trees further down the trail are older and because they are older they are taller, when they are taller they have more vines and other organisms growing on top of it. But I asked myself "wouldn't the trees at the beginning of the trail still have organisms also grow on them". I found this to be true so I not think that the taller a tree is the more organisms it has on top of it. This theory would fir for the trees in the back of the trail as well as the trees in the beginning of the trail. I also did notice random trees everywhere. That means when you only see tall trees for a while then you suddenly see a smaller tree then that would be random. My explanation for this occuring of random trees is that the trees grow where they grow because there is most likely a gap in the trees above big enough so that the tree has enough sunlight. When I went further down the trail by the cliffs I noticed that there were a lot of roots going to the stream. When I followed one root I noticed that it when straight up the side of the cliff. I was amazed by this and therefore had to double check and triple check that I had followed the correct root. I was correct and I had followed the correct root. This was an amazing sight of competition for the water from the stream.

JOURNAL 2: ASSIGNED ENTRY There are some variations that may have occurred to solve this competition for the water from the stream. The trees may have did a numerous amount of changes to better survive.The trees for example are growing everywhere even up a mountain. This may allow the tree to get more sunlight since they are higher up and they don't have a lot of biotic factors such as the mountains preventing it from getting sunlight. So this benefits the tree even though it is farther away from the water. The trees have found a solution to the problem and the solution was stretching their roots out far enough to get to the water source. I think the trees grow randomly because there are openings in the trees that give enough sunlight to survive, which is what I said earlier. I think that the trees grow smaller than the other trees because there is not enough nutrients for it to grow to such enormous heights like the other trees. The tree just has enough sunlight to grow and I think it has just enough water to stay alive except when it pours.

Journal 3: FREE WRITE

I would first like to point out that my assigned role in my group is animal life. For this third journal I went to Makiki Stream and tried to look at all the animal life and plant life as in trees that I could. I tried to stay away from the creatures that lurk in the flowing waters of the stream. Only because that is very relevant to my other partners assigned role. I had noticed that there were not any animals to be found besides a whole bunch of mosquitoes. Unlike my first journal entry I noticed that mosquitoes were extremely plentiful near the stream. This leads me to my hypothesis's.

If you are closer to a stream, mosquitoes will be more plentiful than if you were farther away from the stream. This is my first hypothesis. I thought of this hypothesis because when I was reading over all of my journal entries I read what I said about mosquitoes not being plentiful at all. So I decided to make this hypothesis testing whether or not mosquitoes would be more plentiful than if you were away from it.

If a tree is low, it will have less vines and other organisms growing on it than if it were taller. This is my second hypothesis. I thought of this because when I saw the trees at Makiki Stream I was amazed by how many trees I saw and all the lush vegetation that was growing all over the tree. That is how I thought of this idea and that I realize that it is a difficult hypothesis to preform.

If you are closer to the stream there will be a higher density of trees than if you were farther away from the stream. I thought of this because I believe that the trees are attracted to the water of the stream. So if you are closer there will be more tree near the stream because they are attracted to it. That is my reasoning for my final hypothesis.

Sorry about this big space I couldn't fix it.

Journal 4: FREE WRITE

When I returned to Makiki Stream I still noticed a huge density of mosquitoes in the premises. It was relatively the same temperature as the last time I came to visit but the humidity felt higher than before. I noticed that the ground was pretty moist. I think that it had rained there, and started to try very recently. I think that the mosquitoes really benefited from these conditions and that is probably why they have still stayed there from the last time. This leads me to my experiment. The hypothesis I choose to test during this visit was the one involving the mosquitoes.

If you are closer to a stream, mosquitoes will be more plentiful than if you were farther away from the stream. This is my first hypothesis. I thought of this hypothesis because when I was reading over all of my journal entries I read what I said about mosquitoes not being plentiful at all. So I decided to make this hypothesis testing whether or not mosquitoes would be more plentiful than if you were away from it. This is the hypothesis I chose to test. It was a simple experiment and pretty easy to test. My logic behind this was that mosquitoesneeded a moistenvironment like the stream in order to have a sustainable population. These are the results from my experiment. The way I did the test was I went down to the stream and stood there and tried to see as well as feel, and hear the mosquitoes as I stood still. I then went away form the stream about 50 feet and did the same thing as when I was close to the stream. Then I just repeated these steps twice.

As I thought my results matched up with my hypothesis. Based on my results I guess mosquitoes like to hang around damp and wet areas such as near the stream. Crayfish

Kingdom - Anamalia, Phylum Chordata, Class - Amphibia, Order - Anura, Family - Leptodactylidae, Genus - Eleutherodactylus, Species - Eleutherodactylus Planirostris
  Mosquito  //Kingdom - Animalia, Phylum - Arthropoda, Class - Insecta, Order - Diptera, //   Red Fire Ant Kingdom - Animalia, Phylum - Arthropoda, Class - Insecta, Order - Hymenoptera  Black Ant Kingdom - Animalia, Phylum - Arthropoda, Class - Insecta, Order - Hymenoptera 