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11 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               Community dynamics of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes in an estuary reservoir ▶     Zhen Sun, Guoping Li, Chengwei Wang et al.     This study demonstrates both prokaryotic and eukaryotic community structures and dominant taxonomies in different positions of the greatest estuary reservoir for drinking water …             Hollow rhodoliths increase Svalbard's shelf biodiversity ▶     Sebastian Teichert     Rhodoliths are coralline red algal assemblages that commonly occur in marine habitats from the tropics to polar latitudes. They form rigid structures of high-magnesium calcite …             Development and trunk segmentation of early instars of a ptychopariid trilobite from Cambrian Stage 5 of China ▶     Cen Shen, Euan N. K. Clarkson, Jie Yang et al.     Many three-dimensionally preserved exoskeletons found from the middle Cambrian (Stage 5) Gaotai Formation in Guizhou, southern China, have been assigned to the ptychopariid …             Nanofiber based triple layer hydro-philic/-phobic membrane - a solution for pore wetting in membrane distillation ▶     J. A. Prince, D. Rana, T. Matsuura et al.     The innovative design and synthesis of nanofiber based hydro-philic/phobic membranes with a thin hydro-phobic nanofiber layer on the top and a thin hydrophilic nanofiber layer on …             Leaf nitrogen and phosphorus of temperate desert plants in response to climate and soil nutrient availability ▶     Mingzhu He, Feike A. Dijkstra, Ke Zhang et al.     In desert ecosystems, plant growth and nutrient uptake are restricted by availability of soil nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). The effects of both climate and soil nutrient …             Attribution of the United States “warming hole”: Aerosol indirect effect and precipitable water vapor ▶     Shaocai Yu, Kiran Alapaty, Rohit Mathur et al.     Aerosols can influence the climate indirectly by acting as cloud condensation nuclei and/or ice nuclei, thereby modifying cloud optical properties. In contrast to the widespread …             Quantification of neurotoxin BMAA (β-N-methylamino-L-alanine) in seafood from Swedish markets ▶     Liying Jiang, Nadezda Kiselova, Johan Rosén et al.     The neurotoxin β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) produced naturally by cyanobacteria, diatoms and dinoflagellates can be transferred and accumulated up the food chain, and may be …             Preseismic Changes of the Level and Temperature of Confined Groundwater related to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake ▶     Yoshiaki Orihara, Masashi Kamogawa, Toshiyasu Nagao     Anomalous groundwater changes started three months before the 2011 M9.0 Off the Pacific coast of the Tohoku Earthquake (Tohoku EQ), Japan. Groundwater level and temperature …             Short-term parasite-infection alters already the biomass, activity and functional diversity of soil microbial communities ▶     Jun-Min Li, Ze-Xin Jin, Frank Hagedorn et al.     Native parasitic plants may be used to infect and control invasive plants. We established microcosms with invasive Mikania micrantha and native Coix lacryma-jobi growing in …             Arsenic induces diabetic effects through beta-cell dysfunction and increased gluconeogenesis in mice ▶     Su Liu, Xuechao Guo, Bing Wu et al.     Arsenic as a potential risk factor for type 2 diabetes has been received attention recently. However, the roles of arsenic on development of diabetes are unclear. 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