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12 July 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Earth & Environmental Sciences               Vegetation change impacts on soil organic carbon chemical composition in subtropical forests ▶     Xiaoping Guo, Miaojing Meng, Jinchi Zhang et al.     Changes in the chemical composition of soil organic carbon (SOC) might strongly affect the global carbon cycle as it controls the SOC decomposition rate. Vegetation change …             Uncertainty analysis for an effluent trading system in a typical nonpoint-sources-polluted watershed ▶     Lei Chen, Zhaoxing Han, Guobo Wang et al.     Conventional effluent trading systems (ETSs) between point sources (PSs) and nonpoint sources (NPSs) are often unreliable because of the uncertain characteristics of NPSs. In …             A novel quantitation approach for maximizing detectable targets for offensive/volatile odorants with diverse functional groups by thermal desorption-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry ▶     Yong-Hyun Kim, Ki-Hyun Kim     A multitude of analytical systems are needed to analyze diverse odorants with various functionalities. In this study, an experimental method was developed to assess the maximum …             Multi-scale factors influencing the characteristics of avian communities in urban parks across Beijing during the breeding season ▶     Shilin Xie, Fei Lu, Lei Cao et al.     Understanding the factors that influence the characteristics of avian communities using urban parks at both the patch and landscape level is important to focus management effort …             Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is killed by homologues of 2-(1-undecyloxy)-1-ethanol ▶     Junheon Kim, Sang-Myeong Lee, Chung Gyoo Park     2-(1-Undecyloxy)-1-ethanol, monochamol, is a male-produced aggregation pheromone of the Monochamus species, which are efficient vectors of the pine wood nematode (PWN), …             A light-induced shortcut in the planktonic microbial loop ▶     Robert Ptacnik, Ana Gomes, Sarah-Jeanne Royer et al.     Mixotrophs combine photosynthesis with phagotrophy to cover their demands in energy and essential nutrients. This gives them a competitive advantage under oligotropihc …             In Situ Spectral Kinetics of Cr(VI) Reduction by c-Type Cytochromes in A Suspension of Living Shewanella putrefaciens 200 ▶     Tongxu Liu, Xiaomin Li, Fangbai Li et al.     Although c-type cytochromes (c-Cyts) mediating metal reduction have been mainly investigated with in vitro purified proteins of dissimilatory metal reducing bacteria, the in vivo …             Bolide impact triggered the Late Triassic extinction event in equatorial Panthalassa ▶     Tetsuji Onoue, Honami Sato, Daisuke Yamashita et al.     Extinctions within major pelagic groups (e.g., radiolarians and conodonts) occurred in a stepwise fashion during the last 15 Myr of the Triassic. Although a marked decline in the …             The size-distribution of Earth’s lakes ▶     B. B. Cael, D. A. Seekell     Globally, there are millions of small lakes, but a small number of large lakes. Most key ecosystem patterns and processes scale with lake size, thus this asymmetry between area …             Corrigendum: Changes in soil organic carbon in croplands subjected to fertilizer management: a global meta-analysis ▶     Pengfei Han, Wen Zhang, Guocheng Wang et al.                 Unmixing hysteresis loops of the late Miocene–early Pleistocene loess-red clay sequence ▶     Rui Zhang, Cristian Necula, David Heslop et al.     Magnetic paleoclimatic records often represent mixed environmental signals. Unmixing these signals may improve our understanding of the paleoenvironmental information contained …             Use of Atmospheric Budget to Reduce Uncertainty in Estimated Water Availability over South Asia from Different Reanalyses ▶     Dawn Emil Sebastian, Amey Pathak, Subimal Ghosh     Disagreements across different reanalyses over South Asia result into uncertainty in assessment of water availability, which is computed as the difference between Precipitation …             Effect of heavy haze and aerosol pollution on rice and wheat productions in China ▶     Xuexi Tie, Ru-Jin Huang, Wenting Dai et al.     In China, regional haze pollution is a serious environmental problem. The impact on ecosystem, however, is not clearly understood. This study investigates the effect of regional …             Effects of shrub encroachment on soil organic carbon in global grasslands ▶     He Li, Haihua Shen, Leiyi Chen et al.     This study aimed to evaluate the effect of shrub encroachment on soil organic carbon (SOC) content at broad scales and its controls. We conducted a meta-analysis using paired …             Local food web management increases resilience and buffers against global change effects on freshwaters ▶     Pablo Urrutia-Cordero, Mattias K. Ekvall, Lars-Anders Hansson     A major challenge for ecological research is to identify ways to improve resilience to climate-induced changes in order to secure the ecosystem functions of natural systems, as …             Isotope signatures of N2O emitted from vegetable soil: Ammonia oxidation drives N2O production in NH4+-fertilized soil of North China ▶     Wei Zhang, Yuzhong Li, Chunying Xu et al.     Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas. In North China, vegetable fields are amended with high levels of N fertilizer and irrigation water, which causes massive N2O flux. …             Plio-Pleistocene evolution of Bohai Basin (East Asia): demise of Bohai Paleolake and transition to marine environment ▶     Liang Yi, Chenglong Deng, Lizhu Tian et al.     The Bohai Basin was transformed to an inner shelf sea hundreds of thousands years ago. This youngest land-sea transition participated in the significant modification of the …             Novel Alleviation Mechanisms of Aluminum Phytotoxicity via Released Biosilicon from Rice Straw-Derived Biochars ▶     Linbo Qian, Baoliang Chen, Mengfang Chen     Replacing biosilicon and biocarbon in soil via biochar amendment is a novel approach for soil amelioration and pollution remediation. The unique roles of silicon (Si)-rich …             Corrigendum: Are viruses important in the plankton of highly turbid glacier-fed lakes? ▶     Fabian Drewes, Hannes Peter, Ruben Sommaruga                 Effect of the environment on the secondary metabolic profile of Tithonia diversifolia: a model for environmental metabolomics of plants ▶     Bruno Leite Sampaio, RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel, Fernando Batista Da Costa     Tithonia diversifolia is an invasive weed commonly found in tropical ecosystems. In this work, we investigate the influence of different abiotic environmental factors on the …             Solar irradiance dictates settlement timing and intensity of marine mussels ▶     Isabel Fuentes-Santos, Uxío Labarta, X. Antón Álvarez-Salgado et al.     Identifying the environmental factors driving larval settlement processes is crucial to understand the population dynamics of marine invertebrates. This work aims to go a step …             Molecular basis of the remarkable species selectivity of an insecticidal sodium channel toxin from the African spider Augacephalus ezendami ▶     Volker Herzig, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Jennifer J. Smith et al.     The inexorable decline in the armament of registered chemical insecticides has stimulated research into environmentally-friendly alternatives. Insecticidal spider-venom peptides …             Tracing the sources and spatial distribution of organic carbon in subsoils using a multi-biomarker approach ▶     Gerrit Angst, Stephan John, Carsten W. Mueller et al.     Soil organic carbon (SOC) from aboveground and belowground sources has rarely been differentiated although it may drive SOC turnover and stabilization due to a presumed differing …             Relative roles of land- and ocean-atmosphere interactions in Asian-Pacific thermal contrast variability at the precessional band ▶     Yue Wang, ZhiMin Jian, Ping Zhao et al.     In a 250-kyr transient simulation of the Community Earth System Model (CESM), we identified a precessional forced seesaw of the summer middle-upper tropospheric eddy temperature …             Modelling survival: exposure pattern, species sensitivity and uncertainty ▶     Roman Ashauer, Carlo Albert, Starrlight Augustine et al.     The General Unified Threshold model for Survival (GUTS) integrates previously published toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic models and estimates survival with explicitly defined …             Microbial biotransformation of DON: molecular basis for reduced toxicity ▶     Alix Pierron, Sabria Mimoun, Leticia S. Murate et al.     Bacteria are able to de-epoxidize or epimerize deoxynivalenol (DON), a mycotoxin, to deepoxy-deoxynivalenol (deepoxy-DON or DOM-1) or 3-epi-deoxynivalenol (3-epi-DON), …             Optimizing rice plant photosynthate allocation reduces N2O emissions from paddy fields ▶     Yu Jiang, Xiaomin Huang, Xin Zhang et al.     Rice paddies are a major source of anthropogenic nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, especially under alternate wetting-drying irrigation and high N input. 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