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15 September 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Nature Publishing Group offers a free open access funding support service to enable authors to discover and apply for article processing charge funding available to them. Visit our website for further advice on the funding options available, and guidance in approaching funders and institutions, or email openaccess@nature.com for more information.            Earth & Environmental Sciences               Alleviating Pressure on Water Resources: A new approach could be attempted ▶     Shikun Sun, Yubao Wang, Feifei Wang et al.     Water and food safety are two major challenges which the world faces today. Traditional water management focuses on the reduction of water use through improvements in water …             The metabolic response of marine copepods to environmental warming and ocean acidification in the absence of food ▶     Daniel J. Mayor, Ulf Sommer, Kathryn B. Cook et al.     Marine copepods are central to the productivity and biogeochemistry of marine ecosystems. Nevertheless, the direct and indirect effects of climate change on their metabolic …             Criteria for Applying the Lucas-Washburn Law ▶     Kewen Li, Danfeng Zhang, Huiyuan Bian et al.     Spontaneous imbibition happens in many natural and chemical engineering processes in which the mean advancing front usually follows Lucas-Washburn’s law. However it has been …             Accumulation of organic C components in soil and aggregates ▶     Hongyan Yu, Weixin Ding, Zengming Chen et al.     To explore soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation mechanisms, the dynamics of C functional groups and macroaggregation were studied synchronously through aggregate fractionation …             Rapid heterogeneous assembly of multiple magma reservoirs prior to Yellowstone supereruptions ▶     Jörn-Frederik Wotzlaw, Ilya N. Bindeman, Richard A. Stern et al.     Large-volume caldera-forming eruptions of silicic magmas are an important feature of continental volcanism. The timescales and mechanisms of assembly of the magma reservoirs that …             Occurrence of chiral organochlorine compounds in the environmental matrices from King George Island and Ardley Island, west Antarctica ▶     Pu Wang, Qinghua Zhang, Yingming Li et al.     Chiral organochlorine compounds (OCs) were measured in various environmental matrices (air, soil and vegetation) from west Antarctica using high resolution gas chromatography …             Titania may produce abiotic oxygen atmospheres on habitable exoplanets ▶     Norio Narita, Takafumi Enomoto, Shigeyuki Masaoka et al.     The search for habitable exoplanets in the Universe is actively ongoing in the field of astronomy. The biggest future milestone is to determine whether life exists on such …             Structural Evolution of Nanoscale Zero-Valent Iron (nZVI) in Anoxic Co2+ Solution: Interactional Performance and Mechanism ▶     Yalei Zhang, Wen Chen, Chaomeng Dai et al.     The structures of nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) particles evolving during reactions, and the reactions are influenced by the evolved structures. To understand the removal …             Suppressing Nitrite-oxidizing Bacteria Growth to Achieve Nitrogen Removal from Domestic Wastewater via Anammox Using Intermittent Aeration with Low Dissolved Oxygen ▶     Bin Ma, Peng Bao, Yan Wei et al.     Achieving nitrogen removal from domestic wastewater using anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) has the potential to make wastewater treatment energy-neutral or even …             Low doses of ivermectin cause sensory and locomotor disorders in dung beetles ▶     José R. Verdú, Vieyle Cortez, Antonio J. Ortiz et al.     Ivermectin is a veterinary pharmaceutical generally used to control the ecto- and endoparasites of livestock, but its use has resulted in adverse effects on coprophilous insects, …             Ice Regelation: Hydrogen-bond extraordinary recoverability and water quasisolid-phase-boundary dispersivity ▶     Xi Zhang, Yongli Huang, Peng Sun et al.     Regelation, i.e., ice melts under compression and freezes again when the pressure is relieved, remains puzzling since its discovery in 1850’s by Faraday. Here we show that …             Manganese powder promoted highly efficient and selective synthesis of fullerene mono- and biscycloadducts at room temperature ▶     Weili Si, Xuan Zhang, Shirong Lu et al.     Discovery of an efficient, practical, and flexible synthetic method to produce various important electron acceptors for low-cost organic photovoltaics (OPVs) is highly desirable. …             A modified oxic-settling-anaerobic activated sludge process using gravity thickening for excess sludge reduction ▶     Jun Wang, Shi-Yu Li, Feng Jiang et al.     Oxic-settling-anaerobic process (OSA) was known as a cost-effective way to reduce the excess sludge production with simple upgrade of conventional activated sludge process (CAS). …             Martian outflow channels: How did their source aquifers form, and why did they drain so rapidly? ▶     J. Alexis P. Rodriguez, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Victor R. Baker et al.     Catastrophic floods generated ~3.2 Ga by rapid groundwater evacuation scoured the Solar System’s most voluminous channels, the southern circum-Chryse outflow channels. Based on …             Priming effect of 13C-labelled wheat straw in no-tillage soil under drying and wetting cycles in the Loess Plateau of China ▶     Enke Liu, Jianbo Wang, Yanqing Zhang et al.     The objectives of this study were to determine the effects of drying and wetting (DW) cycles on soil organic carbon (SOC) mineralisation and on the priming effect (PE) induced by …             Polymeric and Solid Lipid Nanoparticles for Sustained Release of Carbendazim and Tebuconazole in Agricultural Applications ▶     Estefânia Vangelie Ramos Campos, Jhones Luiz de Oliveira, Camila Morais Gonçalves da Silva et al.     Carbendazim (MBC) (methyl-2-benzimidazole carbamate) and tebuconazole (TBZ) ((RS)-1-(4-chlorophenyl)-4,4-dimethyl-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-ylmethyl)pentan-3-ol) are widely used in …             Water from air: an overlooked source of moisture in arid and semiarid regions ▶     Theresa A. McHugh, Ember M. Morrissey, Sasha C. Reed et al.     Water drives the functioning of Earth’s arid and semiarid lands. Drylands can obtain water from sources other than precipitation, yet little is known about how non-rainfall water …             Extraordinary slow degradation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in a cold marginal sea ▶     Tae-Hoon Kim, Guebuem Kim, Shin-Ah Lee et al.     Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is the largest organic carbon reservoir in the ocean, and the amount of carbon in this reservoir rivals that in atmospheric CO2. In general, DOC …             Lithium isotope traces magmatic fluid in a seafloor hydrothermal system ▶     Dan Yang, Zengqian Hou, Yue Zhao et al.     Lithium isotopic compositions of fluid inclusions and hosted gangue quartz from a giant volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit in China provide robust evidence for inputting of …             Thermal post-treatment alters nutrient release from a controlled-release fertilizer coated with a waterborne polymer ▶     Zijun Zhou, Changwen Du, Ting Li et al.     Controlled-release fertilizers (CRF) use a controlled-release technology to enhance the nutrient use efficiency of crops. Many factors affect the release of nutrients from the …             Dual response to nest flooding during monsoon in an Indian ant ▶     Swetashree Kolay, Sumana Annagiri     Flooding causes destruction of shelter and disruption of activity in animals occupying subterranean nests. To ensure their survival organisms have evolved various responses to …             Pelagic photoferrotrophy and iron cycling in a modern ferruginous basin ▶     Marc Llirós, Tamara García–Armisen, François Darchambeau et al.     Iron-rich (ferruginous) ocean chemistry prevailed throughout most of Earth’s early history. Before the evolution and proliferation of oxygenic photosynthesis, biological …             Water use efficiency of China’s terrestrial ecosystems and responses to drought ▶     Yibo Liu, Jingfeng Xiao, Weimin Ju et al.     Water use efficiency (WUE) measures the trade-off between carbon gain and water loss of terrestrial ecosystems, and better understanding its dynamics and controlling factors is …             New insight into the residual inactivation of Microcystis aeruginosa by dielectric barrier discharge ▶     Lamei Li, Hong Zhang, Qing Huang     We report the new insight into the dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) induced inactivation of Microcystis aeruginosa, the dominant algae which caused harmful cyanobacterial …             Spatio-temporal distribution of human lifespan in China ▶     Shaobin Wang, Kunli Luo, Yonglin Liu     Based on the data of latest three Chinese population censuses (1990–2010), four lifespan indicators were calculated: centenarians per one hundred thousand inhabitants (CH); …             Very low embryonic crude oil exposures cause lasting cardiac defects in salmon and herring ▶     John P. Incardona, Mark G. Carls, Larry Holland et al.     The 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster exposed embryos of pink salmon and Pacific herring to crude oil in shoreline spawning habitats throughout Prince William Sound, Alaska. 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