Scientific Reports Earth Sciences Table of Contents e-alert: October 2013

01 October 2013      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Penguin tissue as a proxy for relative krill abundance in East Antarctica during the Holocene ▶     Tao Huang, Liguang Sun, Nanye Long et al.     Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is a key component of the Southern Ocean food web. It supports a large number of upper trophic-level predators, and is also a major fishery …             High-resolution summer precipitation variations in the western Chinese Loess Plateau during the last glacial ▶     Zhiguo Rao, Fahu Chen, Hai Cheng et al.     We present a summer precipitation reconstruction for the last glacial (LG) on the western edge of the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) using a well-dated organic carbon isotopic …             Culture-dependent and independent approaches for identifying novel halogenases encoded by Crambe crambe (marine sponge) microbiota ▶     Başak Öztürk, Lenny de Jaeger, Hauke Smidt et al.     Sponges harbour microbial communities that contribute to the genetic and metabolic potential of their host. Among metabolites produced by sponge-associated microbial communities, …             Mineral-Coated Polymer Membranes with Superhydrophilicity and Underwater Superoleophobicity for Effective Oil/Water Separation ▶     Peng-Cheng Chen, Zhi-Kang Xu     Oil-polluted water is a worldwide problem due to the increasing industrial oily wastewater and the frequent oil spill accidents. Here, we report a novel kind of superhydrophilic …             Depth of origin of magma in eruptions ▶     Laura Becerril, Ines Galindo, Agust Gudmundsson et al.     Many volcanic hazard factors - such as the likelihood and duration of an eruption, the eruption style, and the probability of its triggering large landslides or caldera collapses …             Natural versus anthropogenic subsidence of Venice ▶     Luigi Tosi, Pietro Teatini, Tazio Strozzi     We detected land displacements of Venice by Persistent Scatterer Interferometry using ERS and ENVISAT C-band and TerraSAR-X and COSMO-SkyMed X-band acquisitions over the periods …             Frequent floods in the European Alps coincide with cooler periods of the past 2500 years ▶     Lukas Glur, Stefanie B. Wirth, Ulf Büntgen et al.     Severe floods triggered by intense precipitation are among the most destructive natural hazards in Alpine environments, frequently causing large financial and societal damage. …             Exceptional preservation of Palaeozoic steroids in a diagenetic continuum ▶     Ines Melendez, Kliti Grice, Lorenz Schwark     The occurrence of intact sterols has been restricted to immature Cretaceous (~125 Ma) sediments with one report from the Late Jurassic (~165 Ma). Here we report the oldest …             Interdependent networks: the fragility of control ▶     Richard G. Morris, Marc Barthelemy     Recent work in the area of interdependent networks has focused on interactions between two systems of the same type. However, an important and ubiquitous class of systems are …             Post-Mesozoic Rapid Increase of Seawater Mg/Ca due to Enhanced Mantle-Seawater Interaction ▶     Marco Ligi, Enrico Bonatti, Marco Cuffaro et al.     The seawater Mg/Ca ratio increased significantly from ~ 80 Ma to present, as suggested by studies of carbonate veins in oceanic basalts and of fluid inclusions in halite. We show …             Solar forcing of the Indian summer monsoon variability during the Ållerød period ▶     Anil K. Gupta, Kuppusamy Mohan, Moumita Das et al.     Rapid climatic shifts across the last glacial to Holocene transition are pervasive feature of the North Atlantic as well as low latitude proxy archives. Our decadal to centennial …             Complexity and diversity of eyes in Early Cambrian ecosystems ▶     Fangchen Zhao, David J. Bottjer, Shixue Hu et al.     Here we report exceptionally preserved non-biomineralized compound eyes of a non-trilobite arthropod Cindarella eucalla from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, China. The …             Renewable hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from biodiesel waste glycerol ▶     Chunfei Wu, Zichun Wang, Paul T. Williams et al.     In this report, we introduce a novel and commercially viable method to recover renewable hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from waste glycerol produced in the biodiesel process. …             Isotopic evidence for continental ice sheet in mid-latitude region in the supergreenhouse Early Cretaceous ▶     Wu-Bin Yang, He-Cai Niu, Wei-Dong Sun et al.     Cretaceous represents one of the hottest greenhouse periods in the Earth's history, but some recent studies suggest that small ice caps might be present in non-polar regions …             The impact of human-environment interactions on the stability of forest-grassland mosaic ecosystems ▶     Clinton Innes, Madhur Anand, Chris T. Bauch     Forest-grassland mosaic ecosystems can exhibit alternative stables states, whereby under the same environmental conditions, the ecosystem could equally well reside either in one …             New approach for earthquake/tsunami monitoring using dense GPS networks ▶     Xingxing Li, Maorong Ge, Yong Zhang et al.     In recent times increasing numbers of high-rate GPS stations have been installed around the world and set-up to provide data in real-time. These networks provide a great …             Testing the annual nature of speleothem banding ▶     Chuan-Chou Shen, Ke Lin, Wuhui Duan et al.     Speleothem laminae have been postulated to form annually, and this lamina-chronology is widely applied to high-resolution modern and past climate reconstructions. However, this …             One hundred years of Arctic surface temperature variation due to anthropogenic influence ▶     John C. Fyfe, Knut von Salzen, Nathan P. Gillett et al.     Observations show that Arctic-average surface temperature increased from 1900 to 1940, decreased from 1940 to 1970, and increased from 1970 to present. Here, using new …             Size matters: implications of the loss of large individuals for ecosystem function ▶     Alf Norkko, Anna Villnäs, Joanna Norkko et al.     Size is a fundamental organismal trait and an important driver of ecosystem functions. Although large individuals may dominate some functions and provide important habitat …             Glyphosate applications on arable fields considerably coincide with migrating amphibians ▶     Gert Berger, Frieder Graef, Holger Pfeffer     Glyphosate usage is increasing worldwide and the application schemes of this herbicide are currently changing. Amphibians migrating through arable fields may be harmed by …             Worldwide isotope ratios of the Fukushima release and early-phase external dose reconstruction ▶     Kittisak Chaisan, Jim T. Smith, Peter Bossew et al.     Measurements of radionuclides (RNs) in air made worldwide following the Fukushima accident are quantitatively compared with air and soil measurements made in Japan. Isotopic …             A single betaproteobacterium dominates the microbial community of the crambescidine-containing sponge Crambe crambe ▶     Julie Croué, Nyree J. West, Marie-Line Escande et al.     Crambe crambe is a marine sponge that produces high concentrations of the pharmacologically significant pentacyclic guanidine alkaloids (PGAs), Crambescines and Crambescidines. …             The role of industrial nitrogen in the global nitrogen biogeochemical cycle ▶     Baojing Gu, Jie Chang, Yong Min et al.     Haber-Bosch nitrogen (N) has been increasingly used in industrial products, e.g., nylon, besides fertilizer. Massive numbers of species of industrial reactive N (Nr) have emerged …             Predicted spatio-temporal dynamics of radiocesium deposited onto forests following the Fukushima nuclear accident ▶     Shoji Hashimoto, Toshiya Matsuura, Kazuki Nanko et al.     The majority of the area contaminated by the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident is covered by forest. To facilitate effective countermeasure strategies to mitigate …             Co3O4 nanocages with highly exposed {110} facets for high-performance lithium storage ▶     Dequan Liu, Xi Wang, Xuebin Wang et al.     Functional materials with both exposed highly reactive planes and hollow structures have attracted considerable attentions with respect to improved catalytic activity and enhanced …             Emission of spherical cesium-bearing particles from an early stage of the Fukushima nuclear accident ▶     Kouji Adachi, Mizuo Kajino, Yuji Zaizen et al.     The Fukushima nuclear accident released radioactive materials into the environment over the entire Northern Hemisphere in March 2011, and the Japanese government is spending large …             Whales Use Distinct Strategies to Counteract Solar Ultraviolet Radiation ▶     Laura M. Martinez-Levasseur, Mark A. Birch-Machin, Amy Bowman et al.     A current threat to the marine ecosystem is the high level of solar ultraviolet radiation (UV). 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