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

03 September 2012      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports             Online-only personal subscriptions now available to Nature Geoscience For only 49 USD/29 GBP/29 EUR Subscribe now!                 Earth & Environmental Sciences               Interplay between the Westerlies and Asian monsoon recorded in Lake Qinghai sediments since 32 ka ▶     Zhisheng An, Steven M. Colman, Weijian Zhou et al.     Two atmospheric circulation systems, the mid-latitude Westerlies and the Asian summer monsoon (ASM), play key roles in northern-hemisphere climatic changes. However, the …             Swelling transition of a clay induced by heating ▶     E. L. Hansen, H. Hemmen, D. M. Fonseca et al.     Clays are of paramount importance for soil stability, but also in applications ranging from oil recovery to composites and hydrogels. Generically, clays are divided into two …             Early Anthropogenic Transformation of the Danube-Black Sea System ▶     Liviu Giosan, Marco J. L. Coolen, Jed O. Kaplan et al.     Over the last century humans have altered the export of fluvial materials leading to significant changes in morphology, chemistry, and biology of the coastal ocean. Here we …             Proxy-to-proxy calibration: Increasing the temporal resolution of quantitative climate reconstructions ▶     Lucien von Gunten, William J. D'Andrea, Raymond S. Bradley et al.     High-resolution paleoclimate reconstructions are often restricted by the difficulties of sampling geologic archives in great detail and the analytical costs of processing large …             Vertical distribution of microbial communities in a perennially stratified Arctic lake with saline, anoxic bottom waters ▶     André M. Comeau, Tommy Harding, Pierre E. Galand et al.     Meromictic lakes are useful biogeochemical models because of their stratified chemical gradients and separation of redox reactions down the water column. Perennially ice-covered …             Why the bigger live longer and travel farther: animals, vehicles, rivers and the winds ▶     Adrian Bejan     Here we show that constructal-law physics unifies the design of animate and inanimate movement by requiring that larger bodies move farther, and their movement on the landscape …             Pd/C Synthesized with Citric Acid: An Efficient Catalyst for Hydrogen Generation from Formic Acid/Sodium Formate ▶     Zhi-Li Wang, Jun-Min Yan, Hong-Li Wang et al.     A highly efficient hydrogen generation from formic acid/sodium formate aqueous solution catalyzed by in situ synthesized Pd/C with citric acid has been successfully achieved at …             Ash generation and distribution from the April-May 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland ▶     Magnús T. Gudmundsson, Thorvaldur Thordarson, Ármann Höskuldsson et al.     The 39-day long eruption at the summit of Eyjafjallajökull volcano in April–May 2010 was of modest size but ash was widely dispersed. By combining data from ground surveys and …             Wisdom of groups promotes cooperation in evolutionary social dilemmas ▶     Attila Szolnoki, Zhen Wang, Matjaž Perc     Whether or not to change strategy depends not only on the personal success of each individual, but also on the success of others. Using this as motivation, we study the evolution …             The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly ▶     Atsuki Hiyama, Chiyo Nohara, Seira Kinjo et al.     The collapse of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant caused a massive release of radioactive materials to the environment. A prompt and reliable system for evaluating the …             A direct borohydride fuel cell with a polymer fiber membrane and non-noble metal catalysts ▶     Xiaodong Yang, Yongning Liu, Sai Li et al.     Polymer electrolyte membranes (PEM) and Pt-based catalysts are two crucial components which determine the properties and price of fuel cells. Even though, PEM faces problem of …             Extinction Risk and Overfishing: Reconciling Conservation and Fisheries Perspectives on the Status of Marine Fishes ▶     Trevor D. Davies, Julia K. Baum     Anthropogenic disturbances are ubiquitous in the ocean, but their impacts on marine species are hotly debated. We evaluated marine fish statuses using conservation (Red List …             Direct interaction between the Gulf Stream and the shelfbreak south of New England ▶     Glen G. Gawarkiewicz, Robert E. Todd, Albert J. Plueddemann et al.     Sea surface temperature imagery, satellite altimetry, and a surface drifter track reveal an unusual tilt in the Gulf Stream path that brought the Gulf Stream to 39.9°N near the …             How to construct the perfect sandcastle ▶     Maryam Pakpour, Mehdi Habibi, Peder Møller et al.     Just a bit of water enables one to turn a pile of dry sand into a spectacular sandcastle. Too much water however will destabilize the material, as is seen in landslides. Here we …             Localized outbreak of attached diatoms on the coral Montipora due to low-temperature stress ▶     Hideyuki Yamashiro, Yurika Mikame, Hidekazu Suzuki     A short-term, localized outbreak of diatoms attached to live corals was observed along the coast of Sesoko Island, Okinawa, Japan in February, 2011. Diatoms are recognized as …                         Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. 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