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15 April 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Biochar and Glomus caledonium Influence Cd Accumulation of Upland Kangkong (Ipomoea aquatica Forsk.) Intercropped with Alfred Stonecrop (Sedum alfredii Hance) ▶     Junli Hu, Fuyong Wu, Shengchun Wu et al.     Both biochar application and mycorrhizal inoculation have been proposed to improve plant growth and alter bioaccumulation of toxic metals. A greenhouse pot trial was conducted to …             Archaeal amoA and ureC genes and their transcriptional activity in the Arctic Ocean ▶     Estelle Pedneault, Pierre E. Galand, Marianne Potvin et al.     Thaumarchaeota and the gene encoding for a subunit of ammonia monooxygenase (amoA) are ubiquitous in Polar Seas, and some Thaumarchaeota also have a gene coding for ureC, …             Sampling Biases in Datasets of Historical Mean Air Temperature over Land ▶     Kaicun Wang     Global mean surface air temperature (Ta) has been reported to have risen by 0.74C over the last 100 years. However, the definition of mean Ta is still a subject of debate. The …             Articulated Wiwaxia from the Cambrian Stage 3 Xiaoshiba Lagerstätte ▶     Jie Yang, Martin R. Smith, Tian Lan et al.     Wiwaxia is a bizarre metazoan that has been interpreted as a primitive mollusc and as a polychaete annelid worm. Extensive material from the Burgess Shale provides a detailed …             From Commodity Polymers to Functional Polymers ▶     Tao Xiang, Ling-Ren Wang, Lang Ma et al.     Functional polymers bear specified chemical groups, and have specified physical, chemical, biological, pharmacological, or other uses. To adjust the properties while keeping …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoctoral position     Cornell University            Postdoctoral Research Assistant     Queen Mary University of London            Clinical Research Fellow     University of Edinburgh            PhD student     German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)            Research Associate     Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR)            Bioinformatician     University of Glasgow            Postdoctoral Fellow     University of Idaho            PhD Student     Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society            Research assistant     Brown University            Research Technican     University of Sussex          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. Keep up-to-date with the latest sector trends, vote in our reader poll and sign-up to receive the monthly Naturejobs newsletter.           • Scientific Reportsevents Directory featured events           natureevents directory featured events         Short Course in Climate Extremes Analysis     27 August 2014 Hannover, Germany         Natureevents Directory is the premier resource for scientists looking for the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia. Featured across Nature Publishing Group journals and centrally at natureevents.com it is an essential reference guide to scientific events worldwide.                 Your email address is in the Scientific Reports: Earth Sciences mailing list. You have been sent this Table of Contents Alert because you have opted in to receive it. You can change or discontinue your e-mail alerts at any time, by modifying your preferences on your nature.com account at: www.nature.com/nams/svc/myaccount (You will need to log in to be recognised as a nature.com registrant). For further technical assistance, please contact our registration department For other enquiries, please contact our customer feedback department Nature Publishing Group | 75 Varick Street, 9th floor | New York | NY 10013-1917 | USA Nature Publishing Group's offices: Principal offices: London - New York - Tokyo Worldwide offices: Basingstoke - Boston - Buenos Aires - Delhi - Hong Kong - Madrid - Melbourne - Munich - Paris - San Francisco - Seoul - Washington DC Macmillan Publishers Limited is a company incorporated in England and Wales under company number 785998 and whose registered office is located at Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. © 2014 Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.