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02 January 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Frontiers helps you make the most of your valuable professional network through our unique research network.   Connect to colleagues, increase your impact and benefit from a 30% increase in downloads of any publication you link to your profile.   Register today           Earth & Environmental Sciences               Forest cutting and impacts on carbon in the eastern United States ▶     Decheng Zhou, Shuguang Liu, Jennifer Oeding et al.     Forest cutting is a major anthropogenic disturbance that affects forest carbon (C) storage and fluxes. Yet its characteristics and impacts on C cycling are poorly understood over …             Microbial life in the Lake Medee, the largest deep-sea salt-saturated formation ▶     Michail M. Yakimov, Violetta La Cono, Vladlen Z. Slepak et al.     Deep-sea hypersaline anoxic lakes (DHALs) of the Eastern Mediterranean represent some of the most hostile environments on our planet. We investigated microbial life in the …             Metagenomic analysis reveals significant changes of microbial compositions and protective functions during drinking water treatment ▶     Yuanqing Chao, Liping Ma, Ying Yang et al.     The metagenomic approach was applied to characterize variations of microbial structure and functions in raw (RW) and treated water (TW) in a drinking water treatment plant (DWTP) …             Early urban impact on Mediterranean coastal environments ▶     David Kaniewski, Elise Van Campo, Christophe Morhange et al.     A common belief is that, unlike today, ancient urban areas developed in a sustainable way within the environmental limits of local natural resources and the ecosystem's capacity …             High individual consistency in fear of humans throughout the adult lifespan of rural and urban burrowing owls ▶     Martina Carrete, José L. Tella     Human-induced rapid environmental changes challenge individuals by creating evolutionarily novel scenarios, where species encounter novel enemies, the new species sometimes being …             Fungal colonization of an Ordovician impact-induced hydrothermal system ▶     Magnus Ivarsson, Curt Broman, Erik Sturkell et al.     Impacts are common geologic features on the terrestrial planets throughout the solar system, and on at least Earth and Mars impacts have induced hydrothermal convection. …             Plutonium in Soils from Northeast China and Its Potential Application for Evaluation of Soil Erosion ▶     Yihong Xu, Jixin Qiao, Xiaolin Hou et al.     Surface and soil core samples from northeast China were analyzed for Pu isotopes. The measured 240Pu/239Pu atomic ratios and 239 240Pu/137Cs activity ratios revealed that the …             Intensity of vortices: from soap bubbles to hurricanes ▶     T. Meuel, Y. L. Xiong, P. Fischer et al.     By using a half soap bubble heated from below, we obtain large isolated single vortices whose properties as well as their intensity are measured under different conditions. By …             Lava flow hazards at Mount Etna: constraints imposed by eruptive history and numerical simulations ▶     Ciro Del Negro, Annalisa Cappello, Marco Neri et al.     Improving lava flow hazard assessment is one of the most important and challenging fields of volcanology, and has an immediate and practical impact on society. Here, we present a …             A geological perspective on potential future sea-level rise ▶     Eelco J. Rohling, Ivan D. Haigh, Gavin L. Foster et al.     During ice-age cycles, continental ice volume kept pace with slow, multi-millennial scale, changes in climate forcing. Today, rapid greenhouse gas (GHG) increases have outpaced …             Shifts in coral-assemblage composition do not ensure persistence of reef functionality ▶     Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet, Guillermo Horta-Puga et al.     Coral communities are changing rapidly worldwide through loss of coral cover and shifts in species composition. Although many reef-building corals are likely to decline, some …             The Ginger-shaped Asteroid 4179 Toutatis: New Observations from a Successful Flyby of Chang'e-2 ▶     Jiangchuan Huang, Jianghui Ji, Peijian Ye et al.     On 13 December 2012, Chang'e-2 conducted a successful flyby of the near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis at a closest distance of 770 ± 120 meters from the asteroid's surface. The …             Stability of Silk and Collagen Protein Materials in Space ▶     Xiao Hu, Waseem K. Raja, Bo An et al.     Collagen and silk materials, in neat forms and as silica composites, were flown for 18 months on the International Space Station [Materials International Space Station Experiment …             Postcollisional mafic igneous rocks record crust-mantle interaction during continental deep subduction ▶     Zi-Fu Zhao, Li-Qun Dai, Yong-Fei Zheng     Findings of coesite and microdiamond in metamorphic rocks of supracrustal protolith led to the recognition of continental subduction to mantle depths. The crust-mantle interaction …             Looking above the prairie: localized and upward acute vision in a native grassland bird ▶     Luke P. Tyrrell, Bret A. Moore, Christopher Loftis et al.     Visual systems of open habitat vertebrates are predicted to have a band of acute vision across the retina (visual streak) and wide visual coverage to gather information along the …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoc     University of Alabma, Birmingham            Postdoctoral Research Assistant     Queen Mary University of London            Research Assistant     University of Oxford            PhD Position     University of Geneva            Research Associate     King's College London            Postdoctoral Research Assistant     University of Dundee            Postdoctoral Scholar     University of Chicago            Research Assistant     Yale University School of Medicine            Postdoctoral Researcher     Harvard University            Doctoral Student     Aalto 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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