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18 August 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees ▶     J.-F. Bastin, N. Barbier, M. Réjou-Méchain et al.     Large tropical trees and a few dominant species were recently identified as the main structuring elements of tropical forests. However, such result did not translate yet into …             Magma injection beneath the urban area of Naples: a new mechanism for the 2012–2013 volcanic unrest at Campi Flegrei caldera ▶     Luca D’Auria, Susi Pepe, Raffaele Castaldo et al.     We found the first evidence, in the last 30 years, of a renewed magmatic activity at Campi Flegrei caldera from January 2012 to June 2013. The ground deformation, observed …             Herd-level bovine tuberculosis risk factors: assessing the role of low-level badger population disturbance ▶     David M. Wright, Neil Reid, W. Ian Montgomery et al.     Bovine TB (bTB) is endemic in Irish cattle and has eluded eradication despite considerable expenditure, amid debate over the relative roles of badgers and cattle in disease …             Does metal pollution matter with C retention by rice soil? ▶     Rongjun Bian, Kun Cheng, Jufeng Zheng et al.     Soil respiration, resulting in decomposition of soil organic carbon (SOC), emits CO2 to the atmosphere and increases under climate warming. However, the impact of heavy metal …             Synergistic Effect of Dual Electron-Cocatalysts for Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity: rGO as Electron-Transfer Mediator and Fe(III) as Oxygen-Reduction Active Site ▶     Huogen Yu, Jing Tian, Feng Chen et al.     For a high-performance cocatalyst-modified photocatalyst, an effective interfacial separation of photogenerated electron from its corresponding holes and its following reduction …             Predictive habitat suitability models to aid conservation of elasmobranch diversity in the central Mediterranean Sea ▶     V. Lauria, M. Gristina, M. J. Attrill et al.     Commercial fisheries have dramatically impacted elasmobranch populations worldwide. With high capture and bycatch rates, the abundance of many species is rapidly declining and …             A Chinese cave links climate change, social impacts, and human adaptation over the last 500 years ▶     Liangcheng Tan, Yanjun Cai, Zhisheng An et al.     The collapse of some pre-historical and historical cultures, including Chinese dynasties were presumably linked to widespread droughts, on the basis of synchronicities of …             From lithotroph- to organotroph-dominant: directional shift of microbial community in sulphidic tailings during phytostabilization ▶     Xiaofang Li, Philip L. Bond, Joy D. Van Nostrand et al.     Engineering microbial diversity to enhance soil functions may improve the success of direct revegetation in sulphidic mine tailings. Therefore, it is essential to explore how …             A radon-thoron isotope pair as a reliable earthquake precursor ▶     Yong Hwa Oh, Guebuem Kim     Abnormal increases in radon (222Rn, half-life = 3.82 days) activity have occasionally been observed in underground environments before major earthquakes. However, 222Rn alone …             Contribution of Fe3O4 nanoparticles to the fouling of ultrafiltration with coagulation pre-treatment ▶     Wenzheng Yu, Lei Xu, Nigel Graham et al.     A coagulation (FeCl3)-ultrafiltration process was used to treat two different raw waters with/without the presence of Fe3O4 nanoparticle contaminants. The existence of Fe3O4 …             A highly stable minimally processed plant-derived recombinant acetylcholinesterase for nerve agent detection in adverse conditions ▶     Yvonne J. Rosenberg, Jeremy Walker, Xiaoming Jiang et al.     Although recent innovations in transient plant systems have enabled gram quantities of proteins in 1–2 weeks, very few have been translated into applications due to technical …             Fast analysis of 29 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and nitro-PAHs with ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-atmospheric pressure photoionization-tandem mass spectrometry ▶     Shih-Chun Candice Lung, Chun-Hu Liu     Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and nitro-PAHs are ubiquitous in the environment. Some of them are probable carcinogens and some are source markers. This work presents an …             Silver Nanorods Wrapped with Ultrathin Al2O3 Layers Exhibiting Excellent SERS Sensitivity and Outstanding SERS Stability ▶     Lingwei Ma, Yu Huang, Mengjing Hou et al.     Silver nanostructures have been considered as promising substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) with extremely high sensitivity. The applications, however, are …             Scale-dependency of the global mean surface temperature trend and its implication for the recent hiatus of global warming ▶     Yong Lin, Christian L. E. Franzke     Studies of the global mean surface temperature trend are typically conducted at a single (usually annual or decadal) time scale. The used scale does not necessarily correspond to …             Effect of Support on the Activity of Ag-based Catalysts for Formaldehyde Oxidation ▶     Jianghao Zhang, Yaobin Li, Yan Zhang et al.     Ag-based catalysts with different supports (TiO2, Al2O3 and CeO2) were prepared by impregnation method and subsequently tested for the catalytic oxidation of formaldehyde (HCHO) …             Genetic data from algae sedimentary DNA reflect the influence of environment over geography ▶     Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring, Ulrike Herzschuh, Luidmila A. Pestryakova et al.     Genetic investigations on eukaryotic plankton confirmed the existence of modern biogeographic patterns, but analyses of palaeoecological data exploring the temporal variability …             miR-98 and its host gene Huwe1 target Caspase-3 in Silica nanoparticles-treated male germ cells ▶     Bo Xu, Zhilei Mao, Xiaoli Ji et al.     Silica nanoparticles (NP) is one of the most commonly used nanomaterials with potential health hazards. 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