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29 September 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               An increase in the biogenic aerosol concentration as a contributing factor to the recent wetting trend in Tibetan Plateau ▶     Keyan Fang, Risto Makkonen, Zhengtang Guo et al.     A significant wetting trend since the early 1980s in Tibetan Plateau (TP) is most conspicuous in central and eastern Asia as shown in the instrumental data and the long-term …             Global diversity patterns in sandy beach macrofauna: a biogeographic analysis ▶     Francisco Rafael Barboza, Omar Defeo     Unlike the advances generated on land, the knowledge of global diversity patterns in marine ecosystems is limited to a small number of studies. For sandy beaches, which dominate …             Carbonaceous aerosol tracers in ice-cores record multi-decadal climate oscillations ▶     Osamu Seki, Kimitaka Kawamura, James A. P. Bendle et al.     Carbonaceous aerosols influence the climate via direct and indirect effects on radiative balance. However, the factors controlling the emissions, transport and role of …             Mass-Controlled Direct Synthesis of Graphene-like Carbon Nitride Nanosheets with Exceptional High Visible Light Activity. Less is Better ▶     Zaiwang Zhao, Yanjuan Sun, Qian Luo et al.     In the present work, it is very surprising to find that the precursors mass, a long overlooked factor for synthesis of 2D g-C3N4, exerts unexpected impact on g-C3N4 fabrication. …             The arsenic hyperaccumulating Pteris vittata expresses two arsenate reductases ▶     Patrizia Cesaro, Chiara Cattaneo, Elisa Bona et al.     Enzymatic reduction of arsenate to arsenite is the first known step in arsenate metabolism in all organisms. Although the presence of one mRNA arsenate reductase (PvACR2) has …             Effects of viruses on bacterial functions under contrasting nutritional conditions for four species of bacteria isolated from Hong Kong waters ▶     Hao Liu, Xiangcheng Yuan, Jie Xu et al.     Free living viruses are ubiquitous in marine waters and concentrations are usually several times higher than the bacterial abundance. These viruses are capable of lysing host …             Many Atolls May be Uninhabitable Within Decades Due to Climate Change ▶     Curt D. Storlazzi, Edwin P.L. Elias, Paul Berkowitz     Observations show global sea level is rising due to climate change, with the highest rates in the tropical Pacific Ocean where many of the world’s low-lying atolls are located. …             Urbanization in China drives soil acidification of Pinus massoniana forests ▶     Juan Huang, Wei Zhang, Jiangming Mo et al.     Soil acidification instead of alkalization has become a new environmental issue caused by urbanization. However, it remains unclear the characters and main contributors of this …             Anthropogenic debris in seafood: Plastic debris and fibers from textiles in fish and bivalves sold for human consumption ▶     Chelsea M. Rochman, Akbar Tahir, Susan L. Williams et al.     The ubiquity of anthropogenic debris in hundreds of species of wildlife and the toxicity of chemicals associated with it has begun to raise concerns regarding the presence of …             A Sustainable Substitute for Ivory: the Jarina Seed from the Amazon ▶     Yinghao Chu, Marc A. Meyers A, Bin Wang et al.     The dried endosperm of the seed of Phytelephas sp is widely used for artisanal work in the Amazon region due to its favorable mechanical properties and pleasant appearance that …             Future climate effects on suitability for growth of oil palms in Malaysia and Indonesia ▶     R. Russell M. Paterson, Lalit Kumar, Subhashni Taylor et al.     The production of palm oil (PO) is highly profitable. The economies of the principal producers, Malaysia and Indonesia, and others, benefit considerably. Climate change (CC) will …             Magmatic record of India-Asia collision ▶     Di-Cheng Zhu, Qing Wang, Zhi-Dan Zhao et al.     New geochronological and geochemical data on magmatic activity from the India-Asia collision zone enables recognition of a distinct magmatic flare-up event that we ascribe to …             Elevated temperature altered photosynthetic products in wheat seedlings and organic compounds and biological activity in rhizopshere soil under cadmium stress ▶     Xia Jia, YongHua Zhao, WenKe Wang et al.     The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of slightly elevated atmospheric temperature in the spring on photosynthetic products in wheat seedlings and on organic …             Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus additions on soil microbial biomass and community structure in two reforested tropical forests ▶     Lei Liu, Per Gundersen, Wei Zhang et al.     Elevated nitrogen (N) deposition may aggravate phosphorus (P) deficiency in forests in the warm humid regions of China. To our knowledge, the interactive effects of long-term N …             Distinctive ocean interior changes during the recent warming slowdown ▶     Lijing Cheng, Fei Zheng, Jiang Zhu     The earth system experiences continuous heat input, but a “climate hiatus” of upper ocean waters has been observed in this century. This leads to a question: where is the extra …             Parameterization of clear-sky surface irradiance and its implications for estimation of aerosol direct radiative effect and aerosol optical depth ▶     Xiangao Xia     Aerosols impact clear-sky surface irradiance () through the effects of scattering and absorption. Linear or nonlinear relationships between aerosol optical depth (τa) and have …             Planting increases the abundance and structure complexity of soil core functional genes relevant to carbon and nitrogen cycling ▶     Feng Wang, Yuting Liang, Yuji Jiang et al.     Plants have an important impact on soil microbial communities and their functions. However, how plants determine the microbial composition and network interactions is still …             Peptide bonds affect the formation of haloacetamides, an emerging class of N-DBPs in drinking water: free amino acids versus oligopeptides ▶     Wenhai Chu, Xin Li, Naiyun Gao et al.     Haloacetamides (HAcAms), an emerging class of nitrogenous disinfection by-products (N-DBPs) of health concern, have been frequently identified in drinking waters. It has long …             Effect of anthropogenic sulphate aerosol in China on the drought in the western-to-central US ▶     Sang-Wook Yeh, Rokjin J. Park, Minjoong J. Kim et al.     In recent decades, droughts have occurred in the western-to-central United States (US), significantly affecting food production, water supplies, ecosystem health, and the …             Fast Episodes of West-Mediterranean-Tyrrhenian Oceanic Opening and Revisited Relations with Tectonic Setting ▶     Carlo Savelli     Extension and calc-alkaline volcanism of the submerged orogen of alpine age (OAA) initiated in Early Oligocene (~33/32 Ma) and reached the stage of oceanic opening in …             Impact of climate changes during the last 5 million years on groundwater in basement aquifers ▶     Luc Aquilina, Virginie Vergnaud-Ayraud, Antoine Armandine Les Landes et al.     Climate change is thought to have major effects on groundwater resources. There is however a limited knowledge of the impacts of past climate changes such as warm or glacial …             Combining Small-Vertebrate, Marine and Stable-Isotope Data to Reconstruct Past Environments ▶     Juan Rofes, Naroa Garcia-Ibaibarriaga, Mikel Aguirre et al.     Three very different records are combined here to reconstruct the evolution of environments in the Cantabrian Region during the Upper Pleistocene, covering ~35.000 years. 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