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17 June 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               The air-sea interface and surface stress under tropical cyclones ▶     Alexander V. Soloviev, Roger Lukas, Mark A. Donelan et al.     Tropical cyclone track prediction is steadily improving, while storm intensity prediction has seen little progress in the last quarter century. Important physics are not yet well …             Volcanic conduit migration over a basement landslide at Mount Etna (Italy) ▶     I. Nicolosi, F. D'Ajello Caracciolo, S. Branca et al.     The flanks of volcanoes may slide in response to the loading of the edifice on a weak basement, magma push, and/or to tectonic stress. However, examples of stratovolcanoes …             Increasing summer rainfall in arid eastern-Central Asia over the past 8500 years ▶     Bing Hong, Françoise Gasse, Masao Uchida et al.     A detailed and well-dated proxy record of summer rainfall variation in arid Central Asia is lacking. Here, we report a long-term, high resolution record of summer rainfall …             Reconstruction of the South Atlantic Subtropical Dipole index for the past 12,000 years from surface temperature proxy ▶     Ilana Wainer, Luciana Figueiredo Prado, Myriam Khodri et al.     Climate indices based on sea surface temperature (SST) can synthesize information related to physical processes that describe change and variability in continental precipitation …             Properties of the plant- and manure-derived biochars and their sorption of dibutyl phthalate and phenanthrene ▶     Mengyi Qiu, Ke Sun, Jie Jin et al.     The properties of plant residue-derived biochars (PLABs) and animal waste-derived biochars (ANIBs) obtained at low and high heating treatment temperatures (300 and 450°C) as well …             On the sustainability of an activity ▶     Daniel S. Zachary     This paper develops a framework to determine the sustainability of a general activity. We define an activity as an action or process that uses one or more resources and that …             The largest Silurian vertebrate and its palaeoecological implications ▶     Brian Choo, Min Zhu, Wenjin Zhao et al.     An apparent absence of Silurian fishes more than half-a-metre in length has been viewed as evidence that gnathostomes were restricted in size and diversity prior to the Devonian. …             Richness and Diversity in Dust Stormborne Biomes at the Southeast Mediterranean ▶     Itzhak Katra, Luba Arotsker, Helena Krasnov et al.     Dust storms include particulate matter that is transported over land and sea with biota that could impact downwind ecosystems. In addition to the physico-chemical compositions, …             Stable acetate production in extreme-thermophilic (70°C) mixed culture fermentation by selective enrichment of hydrogenotrophic methanogens ▶     Fang Zhang, Yan Zhang, Jing Ding et al.     The control of metabolite production is difficult in mixed culture fermentation. This is particularly related to hydrogen inhibition. In this work, hydrogenotrophic methanogens …             Larger CO2 source at the equatorial Pacific during the last deglaciation ▶     Kaoru Kubota, Yusuke Yokoyama, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa et al.     While biogeochemical and physical processes in the Southern Ocean are thought to be central to atmospheric CO2 rise during the last deglaciation, the role of the equatorial …             Lithological control on phytolith carbon sequestration in moso bamboo forests ▶     Beilei Li, Zhaoliang Song, Hailong Wang et al.     Phytolith-occluded carbon (PhytOC) is a stable carbon (C) fraction that has effects on long-term global C balance. Here, we report the phytolith and PhytOC accumulation in moso …             The maximum specific hydrogen-producing activity of anaerobic mixed cultures: definition and determination ▶     Yang Mu, Hou-Yun Yang, Ya-Zhou Wang et al.     Fermentative hydrogen production from wastes has many advantages compared to various chemical methods. 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