Scientific Reports Earth Sciences Table of Contents e-alert: August 2012

01 August 2012      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports             Nature Communications #4 in multidisciplinary sciences with first Impact Factor Nature Communications has joined Nature at the top of the multidisciplinary sciences category with its first impact factor of 7.396*. Launched in April 2010, Nature Communications is a multidisciplinary online-only journal publishing high quality research across the natural sciences. *2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2012)               Earth & Environmental Sciences               The effect of temperature compensation on the circadian rhythmicity of photosynthesis in Symbiodinium, coral-symbiotic alga ▶     Michal Sorek, Oren Levy     Circadian rhythms, which are found in most eukaryotes, are defined as rhythms that persist under constant conditions with a periodicity close to 24 h. One central key …             Fractal cartography of urban areas ▶     Sara Encarnação, Marcos Gaudiano, Francisco C. Santos et al.     In a world in which the pace of cities is increasing, prompt access to relevant information is crucial to the understanding and regulation of land use and its evolution in time. …             Global dispersion of bacterial cells on Asian dust ▶     Nobuyasu Yamaguchi, Tomoaki Ichijo, Akiko Sakotani et al.     The atmospheric dispersion of bacteria over long distances is an important facet of microbial ecology. Certain groups of dispersed bacteria can adapt to their new location and …             Thyroid doses for evacuees from the Fukushima nuclear accident ▶     Shinji Tokonami, Masahiro Hosoda, Suminori Akiba et al.     A primary health concern among residents and evacuees in affected areas immediately after a nuclear accident is the internal exposure of the thyroid to radioiodine, particularly …             The submarine volcano eruption at the island of El Hierro: physical-chemical perturbation and biological response ▶     E. Fraile-Nuez, M. González-Dávila, J. M. Santana-Casiano et al.     On October 10 2011 an underwater eruption gave rise to a novel shallow submarine volcano south of the island of El Hierro, Canary Islands, Spain. During the eruption large …                     The Arab world has a rich history of scientific breakthroughs. Ensure you're part of the scientific and medical community gaining access to the latest research in the region. 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