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

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Access Nature Arabic Edition online and apply for your free subscription arabicedition.nature.com In partnership with: KACST                Earth & Environmental Sciences               Microbial diversity in long-term water-flooded oil reservoirs with different in situ temperatures in China ▶     Fan Zhang, Yue-Hui She, Lu-Jun Chai et al.     Water-flooded oil reservoirs have specific ecological environments due to continual water injection and oil production and water recycling. Using 16S rRNA gene clone library …             Modelling the effects of sanitary policies on European vulture conservation ▶     Antoni Margalida, Ma Àngels Colomer     Biodiversity losses are increasing as a consequence of negative anthropogenic effects on ecosystem dynamics. However, the magnitude and complexity of these effects may still be …             Triggering of major eruptions recorded by actively forming cumulates ▶     Michael J. Stock, Rex N. Taylor, Thomas M. Gernon     Major overturn within a magma chamber can bring together felsic and mafic magmas, prompting de-volatilisation and acting as the driver for Plinian eruptions. Until now …             Zebrafish respond to the geomagnetic field by bimodal and group-dependent orientation ▶     Akira Takebe, Toshiki Furutani, Tatsunori Wada et al.     A variety of animals use Earth's magnetic field as a reference for their orientation behaviour. Although distinctive magnetoreception mechanisms have been postulated for many …             Tracking Stable Isotope Enrichment in Tree Seedlings with Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy ▶     Charlotte E. Norris, Sylvie A. Quideau, Simon M. Landhäusser et al.     Enriching plant tissues with 13C and 15N isotopes has provided long-lasting, non-reactive tracers to quantify rates of terrestrial elemental fluxes (e.g., soil organic matter …             Abundance, Composition, and Sinking Rates of Fish Fecal Pellets in the Santa Barbara Channel ▶     Grace K. Saba, Deborah K. Steinberg     Rapidly sinking fecal pellets are an important component of the vertical flux of particulate organic matter (POM) from the surface to the ocean's interior; however, few studies …             Rapid differentiation in a sill-like magma reservoir: a case study from the campi flegrei caldera ▶     Lucia Pappalardo, Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo     In recent decades, geophysical investigations have detected wide magma reservoirs beneath quiescent calderas. However, the discovery of partially melted horizons inside the crust …             Twin ruptures grew to build up the giant 2011 Tohoku, Japan, earthquake ▶     Nils Maercklin, Gaetano Festa, Simona Colombelli et al.     The 2011 Tohoku megathrust earthquake had an unexpected size for the region. To image the earthquake rupture in detail, we applied a novel backprojection technique to waveforms …             Tailoring a fluorophosphate as a novel 4 V cathode for lithium-ion batteries ▶     Young-Uk Park, Dong-Hwa Seo, Byoungkook Kim et al.     Lithium-ion batteries, which have been widely used to power portable electronic devices, are on the verge of being applied to new automobile applications. To expand this emerging …             Rainfall reductions over Southern Hemisphere semi-arid regions: the role of subtropical dry zone expansion ▶     Wenju Cai, Tim Cowan, Marcus Thatcher     Since the late 1970s, Southern Hemisphere semi-arid regions such as southern-coastal Chile, southern Africa, and southeastern Australia have experienced a drying trend in austral …                         Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. 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