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27 September 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Earth & Environmental Sciences               Using fluorescent dissolved organic matter to trace and distinguish the origin of Arctic surface waters ▶     Rafael Gonçalves-Araujo, Mats A. Granskog, Astrid Bracher et al.     Climate change affects the Arctic with regards to permafrost thaw, sea-ice melt, alterations to the freshwater budget and increased export of terrestrial material to the Arctic …             The H2/CH4 ratio during serpentinization cannot reliably identify biological signatures ▶     Ruifang Huang, Weidong Sun, Jinzhong Liu et al.     Serpentinization potentially contributes to the origin and evolution of life during early history of the Earth. Serpentinization produces molecular hydrogen (H2) that can be …             DNA barcoding reveals that the common cupped oyster in Taiwan is the Portuguese oyster Crassostrea angulata (Ostreoida; Ostreidae), not C. gigas ▶     Sheng-Tai Hsiao, Shin-Chang Chuang, Kao-Sung Chen et al.     The Pacific cupped oyster, Crassostrea gigas, is one of the major aquacultural shellfish species that has been introduced to Europe and America from its native source in the West …             Evaluating digestion efficiency in full-scale anaerobic digesters by identifying active microbial populations through the lens of microbial activity ▶     Ran Mei, Takashi Narihiro, Masaru K. Nobu et al.     Anaerobic digestion is a common technology to biologically stabilize wasted solids produced in municipal wastewater treatment. Its efficiency is usually evaluated by calculating …             Emergence of global scaling behaviour in the coupled Earth-atmosphere interaction ▶     Bijan Fallah, Abbas Ali Saberi, Sahar Sodoudi     Scale invariance property in the global geometry of Earth may lead to a coupled interactive behaviour between various components of the climate system. One of the most …             Migratory blackcaps can use their magnetic compass at 5 degrees inclination, but are completely random at 0 degrees inclination ▶     Susanne Schwarze, Friederike Steenken, Nadine Thiele et al.     It is known that night-migratory songbirds use a magnetic compass measuring the magnetic inclination angle, i.e. the angle between the Earth’s surface and the magnetic field …             Identification and comparative analysis of the microRNA transcriptome in roots of two contrasting tobacco genotypes in response to cadmium stress ▶     Xiaoyan He, Weite Zheng, Fangbin Cao et al.     Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is more acclimated to cadmium (Cd) uptake and preferentially enriches Cd in leaves than other crops. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play crucial roles in …             The conservative behavior of dissolved organic carbon in surface waters of the southern Chukchi Sea, Arctic Ocean, during early summer ▶     Kazuki Tanaka, Nobuyuki Takesue, Jun Nishioka et al.     The spatial distribution of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations and the optical properties of dissolved organic matter (DOM) determined by ultraviolet-visible …             A novel testate amoebae trait-based approach to infer environmental disturbance in Sphagnum peatlands ▶     Katarzyna Marcisz, Daniele Colombaroli, Vincent E. J. Jassey et al.     Species’ functional traits are closely related to ecosystem processes through evolutionary adaptation, and are thus directly connected to environmental changes. Species’ traits …             Titanium dioxide nanoparticles strongly impact soil microbial function by affecting archaeal nitrifiers ▶     Marie Simonin, Agnès Richaume, Julien P. Guyonnet et al.     Soils are facing new environmental stressors, such as titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2-NPs). While these emerging pollutants are increasingly released into most ecosystems, …             Predator-prey interactions in the plankton: larval fish feeding on evasive copepods ▶     James M. Jackson, Petra H. Lenz     Capture success and prey selectivity were investigated in clownfish Amphiprion ocellaris larvae using videography. Three prey types were tested using developmental stages …             Sexually dimorphic gene expressions in eels: useful markers for early sex assessment in a conservation context ▶     Benjamin Geffroy, Florian Guilbaud, Elsa Amilhat et al.     Environmental sex determination (ESD) has been detected in a range of vertebrate reptile and fish species. Eels are characterized by an ESD that occurs relatively late, since sex …             Quantifying overlap between the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and predicted bluefin tuna spawning habitat in the Gulf of Mexico ▶     Elliott L. Hazen, Aaron B. Carlisle, Steven G. Wilson et al.     Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) are distributed throughout the North Atlantic and are both economically valuable and heavily exploited. The fishery is currently managed …             Metabolic and Dynamic Profiling for Risk Assessment of Fluopyram, a Typical Phenylamide Fungicide Widely Applied in Vegetable Ecosystem ▶     Peng Wei, Yanan Liu, Wenzhuo Li et al.     Fluopyram, a typical phenylamide fungicide, was widely applied to protect fruit vegetables from fungal pathogens-responsible yield loss. Highly linked to the ecological and …             A new frontier in CO2 flux measurements using a highly portable DIAL laser system ▶     Manuel Queiβer, Domenico Granieri, Mike Burton     Volcanic CO2 emissions play a key role in the geological carbon cycle, and monitoring of volcanic CO2 fluxes helps to forecast eruptions. The quantification of CO2 fluxes is …             Third trimester phthalate exposure is associated with DNA methylation of growth-related genes in human placenta ▶     Yan Zhao, Jiao Chen, Xiu Wang et al.     Strong evidence implicates maternal phthalate exposure during pregnancy in contributing to adverse birth outcomes. Recent research suggests these effects might be mediated …             Contrasting diets reveal metabolic plasticity in the tree-killing beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) ▶     Charles J. Mason, Erin D. Scully, Scott M. Geib et al.     Wood-feeding insects encounter challenging diets containing low protein quantities, recalcitrant carbohydrate sources, and plant defensive compounds. The Asian longhorned beetle (…             Segmentation of the Himalayas as revealed by arc-parallel gravity anomalies ▶     György Hetényi, Rodolphe Cattin, Théo Berthet et al.     Lateral variations along the Himalayan arc are suggested by an increasing number of studies and carry important information about the orogen’s segmentation. Here we compile the …             Long-term incorporation of manure with chemical fertilizers reduced total nitrogen loss in rain-fed cropping systems ▶     Yinghua Duan, Minggang Xu, Suduan Gao et al.     Improving soil fertility/productivity and reducing environmental impact of nitrogen (N) fertilization are essential for sustainable agriculture. Quantifying the contribution of …             Changes in the timing, length and heating degree days of the heating season in central heating zone of China ▶     Xiangjin Shen, Binhui Liu     Climate change affects the demand for energy consumption, especially for heating and cooling buildings. Using daily mean temperature (Tmean) data, this study analyzed the …             How do the strength and type of ENSO affect SST predictability in coupled models ▶     Soo-Jin Sohn, Chi-Yung Tam, Hye-In Jeong     The effects of amplitude and type of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on sea surface temperature (SST) predictability on a global scale were investigated, by examining …             Canadian Arctic sea ice reconstructed from bromine in the Greenland NEEM ice core ▶     Andrea Spolaor, Paul Vallelonga, Clara Turetta et al.     Reconstructing the past variability of Arctic sea ice provides an essential context for recent multi-year sea ice decline, although few quantitative reconstructions cover the …             Corrigendum: Metabolic rates of giant pandas inform conservation strategies ▶     Yuxiang Fei, Rong Hou, James R. Spotila et al.                 Self-Replication of Localized Vegetation Patches in Scarce Environments ▶     Ignacio Bordeu, Marcel G. Clerc, Piere Couteron et al.     Desertification due to climate change and increasing drought periods is a worldwide problem for both ecology and economy. Our ability to understand how vegetation manages to …             Atmospheric transformation of plant volatiles disrupts host plant finding ▶     Tao Li, James D. Blande, Jarmo K. Holopainen     Plant-emitted volatile organic compounds (VOCs) play important roles in plant-insect interactions. Atmospheric pollutants such as ozone (O3) can react with VOCs and affect the …             Driving forces of soil bacterial community structure, diversity, and function in temperate grasslands and forests ▶     Kristin Kaiser, Bernd Wemheuer, Vera Korolkow et al.     Soil bacteria provide a large range of ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling. Despite their important role in soil systems, compositional and functional responses of …             Evaluation of World Population-Weighted Effective Dose due to Cosmic Ray Exposure ▶     Tatsuhiko Sato     After the release of the Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee of the Effects of Atomic Radiation in 2000 (UNSCEAR2000), it became commonly accepted that the world …             Attribution of hydrological change in Heihe River Basin to climate and land use change in the past three decades ▶     Kaisheng Luo, Fulu Tao, Juana P. Moiwo et al.     The contributions of climate and land use change (LUCC) to hydrological change in Heihe River Basin (HRB), Northwest China were quantified using detailed climatic, land use and …             A Hardy Plant Facilitates Nitrogen Removal via Microbial Communities in Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands in Winter ▶     Penghe Wang, Hui Zhang, Jie Zuo et al.     The plants effect in subsurface flow constructed wetlands (SSF-CWs) is controversial, especially at low temperatures. Consequently, several SSF-CWs planted with Iris pseudacorus …             Mechanism Underlying Time-dependent Cross-phenomenon between Concentration-response Curves and Concentration Addition Curves: A Case Study of Sulfonamides-Erythromycin mixtures on Escherichia coli ▶     Haoyu Sun, Hongming Ge, Min Zheng et al.     Previous studies have identified a phenomenon in which the concentration-response curves (CRCs) for mixtures cross the curves for concentration addition model when predicting or …             Hydrothermal etching fabrication of TiO2@graphene hollow structures: mutually independent exposed {001} and {101} facets nanocrystals and its synergistic photocaltalytic effects ▶     Hui Liu, Shuang Liu, Zhiling Zhang et al.     Highly exposed facets TiO2 attracts enormous attention due to its excellent separation effect of photogenerated electron-hole pairs and induced high performance of photocatalytic …             Litter input decreased the response of soil organic matter decomposition to warming in two subtropical forest soils ▶     Qingkui Wang, Tongxin He, Jing Liu     Interaction effect of temperature and litter input on SOM decomposition is poor understood, restricting accurate prediction of the dynamics and stocks of soil organic carbon …             An Energy Harvesting Underwater Acoustic Transmitter for Aquatic Animals ▶     Huidong Li, Chuan Tian, Jun Lu et al.     Acoustic telemetry is the primary method to actively track aquatic animals for behavioral studies. However, the small storage capacities of the batteries used in the transmitters …             Validation of trophic and anthropic underwater noise as settlement trigger in blue mussels ▶     Aurélie Jolivet, Rejean Tremblay, Fréderic Olivier et al.     Like the majority of benthic invertebrates, the blue mussel Mytilus edulis has a bentho-pelagic cycle with its larval settlement being a complex phenomenon involving numerous …             Self-assembly formation of Bi-functional Co3O4/MnO2-CNTs hybrid catalysts for achieving both high energy/power density and cyclic ability of rechargeable zinc-air battery ▶     Nengneng Xu, Yuyu Liu, Xia Zhang et al.     α-MnO2 nanotubes-supported Co3O4 (Co3O4/MnO2) and its carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-hybrids (Co3O4/MnO2-CNTs) have been successfully developed through a facile two-pot precipitation …             Protein oxidation and degradation caused by particulate matter ▶     Ching-Huang Lai, Chun-Nin Lee, Kuan-Jen Bai et al.     Particulate matter (PM) modulates the expression of autophagy; however, the role of selective autophagy by PM remains unclear. 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