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04 November 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Warming shifts ‘worming’: effects of experimental warming on invasive earthworms in northern North America ▶     Nico Eisenhauer, Artur Stefanski, Nicholas A. Fisichelli et al.     Climate change causes species range shifts and potentially alters biological invasions. The invasion of European earthworm species across northern North America has severe …             Multiple climate cooling prior to Sturtian glaciations: Evidence from chemical index of alteration of sediments in South China ▶     Jing Huang, Lianjun Feng, Dingbiao Lu et al.     Investigation of climatic conditions prior to the Sturtian glaciations is critical to understanding the trigger mechanism for the series of Neoproterozoic global glaciations. In …             Topographic heterogeneity effect on the accumulation of Fukushima-derived radiocesium on forest floor driven by biologically mediated processes ▶     Jun Koarashi, Mariko Atarashi-Andoh, Erina Takeuchi et al.     The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant caused serious radiocesium (137Cs) contamination of forest ecosystems located in mountainous and hilly regions with …             Infrared Attenuated Total Reflectance Spectroscopy: An Innovative Strategy for Analyzing Mineral Components in Energy Relevant Systems ▶     Christian Menno Müller, Bobby Pejcic, Lionel Esteban et al.     The direct qualitative and quantitative determination of mineral components in shale rocks is a problem that has not been satisfactorily resolved to date. Infrared spectroscopy …             Radiocesium contamination of greenlings (Hexagrammos otakii) off the coast of Fukushima ▶     Yuya Shigenobu, Ken Fujimoto, Daisuke Ambe et al.     We measured the radiocesium (134Cs and 137Cs) contamination of 236 greenlings (Hexagrammos otakii) off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, following the accident at the …             Can we predict the unpredictable? ▶     Abbas Golestani, Robin Gras     Time series forecasting is of fundamental importance for a variety of domains including the prediction of earthquakes, financial market prediction, and the prediction of …             Attenuation of veterinary antibiotics in full-scale vermicomposting of swine manure via the housefly larvae (Musca domestica) ▶     ZhiJian Zhang, JianGuo Shen, Hang Wang et al.     Animal waste from concentrated swine farms is widely considered to be a source of environmental pollution, and the introduction of veterinary antibiotics in animal manure to …             Salinity anomaly as a trigger for ENSO events ▶     Jieshun Zhu, Bohua Huang, Rong-Hua Zhang et al.     According to the classical theories of ENSO, subsurface anomalies in ocean thermal structure are precursors for ENSO events and their initial specification is essential for …             Multi-Enhanced-Phonon Scattering Modes in Ln-Me-A Sites co-substituted LnMeA11O19 Ceramics ▶     Haoran Lu, Chang-An Wang, Yong Huang et al.     Authors reported an effective path to decrease the thermal conductivity while to increase the coefficient of thermal expansion, thus enhancing the thermo-physical properties of …             Opposite metabolic responses of shoots and roots to drought ▶     Albert Gargallo-Garriga, Jordi Sardans, Míriam Pérez-Trujillo et al.     Shoots and roots are autotrophic and heterotrophic organs of plants with different physiological functions. Do they have different metabolomes? Do their metabolisms respond …             Novel Na2Mo4O13/α-MoO3 hybrid material as highly efficient CWAO catalyst for dye degradation at ambient conditions ▶     Zhang Zhang, Ruoyan Yang, Yanshan Gao et al.     We report a novel hybrid material Na2Mo4O13/α-MoO3 as highly efficient catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) catalyst, which showed the highest ever activity at room temperature and …               MARKETPLACE: Great deals on the latest lab equipment New Lab Offers and Product Focus are in! 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