Scientific Reports Earth Sciences Table of Contents e-alert: December 2013

01 December 2013      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         "Frontiers has taken open access a step further" Andy Bhattacharjee In this video, Andy Bhattacharjee tells us what he likes about publishing at Frontiers - open access and interactive peer review. Find Andy on the Frontiers Research Network           Earth & Environmental Sciences               Superconductivity in anti-post-perovskite vanadium compounds ▶     Bosen Wang, Kenya Ohgushi     Superconductivity, which is a quantum state induced by spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking, frequently emerges in low-dimensional materials. Hence, low dimensionality has long …             Iodine isotopes species fingerprinting environmental conditions in surface water along the northeastern Atlantic Ocean ▶     Peng He, Xiaolin Hou, Ala Aldahan et al.     Concentrations and species of iodine isotopes (127I and 129I) provide vital information about iodine geochemistry, environmental conditions and water masses exchange in oceans. …             The oldest known communal latrines provide evidence of gregarism in Triassic megaherbivores ▶     Lucas E. Fiorelli, Martín D. Ezcurra, E. Martín Hechenleitner et al.     Defecation in communal latrines is a common behaviour of extant mammals widely distributed among megaherbivores. This behaviour has key social functions with important biological …             Atmospheric mercury inputs in montane soils increase with elevation: evidence from mercury isotope signatures ▶     Hua Zhang, Run-sheng Yin, Xin-bin Feng et al.     The influence of topography on the biogeochemical cycle of mercury (Hg) has received relatively little attention. Here, we report the measurement of Hg species and their …             Novel Erythrocyte-like Graphene Microspheres with High Quality and Mass Production Capability via Electrospray Assisted Self-Assembly ▶     Yayang Tian, Guan Wu, Xike Tian et al.     We report for the first time a novel erythrocyte-like graphene microsphere (ELGMs) which can be produced with high quality and mass production capability via electrospray assisted …             Linear structural evolution induced tunable photoluminescence in clinopyroxene solid-solution phosphors ▶     Zhiguo Xia, Yuanyuan Zhang, Maxim S. Molokeev et al.     Clinopyroxenes along the Jervisite (NaScSi2O6) – Diopside (CaMgSi2O6) join have been studied, and a solid-solution of the type (Na1−xCax)(Sc1−xMgx)Si2O6 has been identified in the …             Ingested plastic transfers hazardous chemicals to fish and induces hepatic stress ▶     Chelsea M. Rochman, Eunha Hoh, Tomofumi Kurobe et al.     Plastic debris litters aquatic habitats globally, the majority of which is microscopic (< 1 mm), and is ingested by a large range of species. Risks associated with such small …             Integrated sorting, concentration and real time PCR based detection system for sensitive detection of microorganisms ▶     Monalisha Nayak, Deepak Singh, Himanshu Singh et al.     The extremely low limit of detection (LOD) posed by global food and water safety standards necessitates the need to perform a rapid process of integrated detection with high …             Prevalence of psbA-containing cyanobacterial podoviruses in the ocean ▶     Qiang Zheng, Nianzhi Jiao, Rui Zhang et al.     Podoviruses that infect marine picocyanobacteria are abundant and could play a significant role on regulating host populations due to their specific phage-host relationship. …             Deep cognitive imaging systems enable estimation of continental-scale fire incidence from climate data ▶     Ritaban Dutta, Jagannath Aryal, Aruneema Das et al.     Unplanned fire is a major control on the nature of terrestrial ecosystems and causes substantial losses of life and property. Given the substantial influence of climatic …             Elevated ground-level O3 negatively influences paddy methanogenic archaeal community ▶     Youzhi Feng, Xiangui Lin, Yongchang Yu et al.     The current knowledge regarding the effect of global climate change on rice-paddy methane (CH4) emissions is incomplete, partly because information is limited concerning the …             Thunderbolt in biogeochemistry: galvanic effects of lightning as another source for metal remobilization ▶     Jörg Schaller, Arndt Weiske, Frank Berger     Iron and manganese are relevant constituents of the earth's crust and both show increasing mobility when reduced by free electrons. This reduction is known to be controlled by …             Horseradish Peroxidase Inactivation: Heme Destruction and Influence of Polyethylene Glycol ▶     Liang Mao, Siqiang Luo, Qingguo Huang et al.     Horseradish peroxidase (HRP) mediates efficient conversion of many phenolic contaminants and thus has potential applications for pollution control. Such potentially important …             Combining stress transfer and source directivity: the case of the 2012 Emilia seismic sequence ▶     Vincenzo Convertito, Flaminia Catalli, Antonio Emolo     The Emilia seismic sequence (Northern Italy) started on May 2012 and caused 17 casualties, severe damage to dwellings and forced the closure of several factories. The total number …             Levoglucosan indicates high levels of biomass burning aerosols over oceans from the Arctic to Antarctic ▶     Qi-Hou Hu, Zhou-Qing Xie, Xin-Ming Wang et al.     Biomass burning is known to affect air quality, global carbon cycle, and climate. However, the extent to which biomass burning gases/aerosols are present on a global scale, …             Firmicutes dominate the bacterial taxa within sugar-cane processing plants ▶     Farhana Sharmin, Steve Wakelin, Flavia Huygens et al.     Sugar cane processing sites are characterised by high sugar/hemicellulose levels, available moisture and warm conditions, and are relatively unexplored unique microbial …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Post Doctoral Research Assistant     University of Bristol            Research Associate     Loma Linda University (LLU)            PhD position     Molecular Oncology Department, University of Goettingen            Postdoctoral Researchers     International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)            Postdoctoral Research Associate     University of Illinois            Clinical Scientist     University of Oxford            Post-doctoral research position     Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming" (BSRC Fleming)            graduate student     Dalhousie University            Post Doctoral Scientist     University of Cambridge            Senior Technician     Cardiff University          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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