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06 October 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Anthropogenic effects on a tropical forest according to the distance from human settlements ▶     Ananya Popradit, Thares Srisatit, Somboon Kiratiprayoon et al.     The protection of tropical forests is one of the most urgent issues in conservation biology because of the rapid deforestation that has occurred over the last 50 years. Even in …             Prenatal ethanol exposure increases osteoarthritis susceptibility in female rat offspring by programming a low-functioning IGF-1 signaling pathway ▶     Qubo Ni, Yang Tan, Xianrong Zhang et al.     Epidemiological evidence indicates that osteoarthritis (OA) and prenatal ethanol exposure (PEE) are both associated with low birth weight but possible causal interrelationships …             Distinguishing time-delayed causal interactions using convergent cross mapping ▶     Hao Ye, Ethan R. Deyle, Luis J. Gilarranz et al.     An important problem across many scientific fields is the identification of causal effects from observational data alone. Recent methods (convergent cross mapping, CCM) have made …             A new tool for long-term studies of POM-bacteria interactions: overcoming the century-old Bottle Effect ▶     Danny Ionescu, Mina Bizic-Ionescu, Arzhang Khalili et al.     Downward fluxes of particulate organic matter (POM) are the major process for sequestering atmospheric CO2 into aquatic sediments for thousands of years. Budget calculations of …             Mass loss and chemical structures of wheat and maize straws in response to ultraviolet-B radiation and soil contact ▶     Guixiang Zhou, Jiabao Zhang, Jingdong Mao et al.     The role of photodegradation, an abiotic process, has been largely overlooked during straw decomposition in mesic ecosystems. We investigated the mass loss and chemical …             Long-term manure amendments reduced soil aggregate stability via redistribution of the glomalin-related soil protein in macroaggregates ▶     Hongtu Xie, Jianwei Li, Bin Zhang et al.     Glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) contributes to the formation and maintenance of soil aggregates, it is however remains unclear whether long-term intensive manure amendments …             Diversifying crop rotations with pulses enhances system productivity ▶     Yantai Gan, Chantal Hamel, John T. O’Donovan et al.     Agriculture in rainfed dry areas is often challenged by inadequate water and nutrient supplies. Summerfallowing has been used to conserve rainwater and promote the release of …             Chronic mercury exposure in Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic populations in Portugal from the cultural use of cinnabar ▶     Steven D. Emslie, Rebecka Brasso, William P. Patterson et al.     Cinnabar is a natural mercury sulfide (HgS) mineral of volcanic or hydrothermal origin that is found worldwide. It has been mined prehistorically and historically in China, …             Natural occurrence of pure nano-polycrystalline diamond from impact crater ▶     Hiroaki Ohfuji, Tetsuo Irifune, Konstantin D. Litasov et al.     Consolidated bodies of polycrystalline diamond with grain sizes less than 100 nm, nano-polycrystalline diamond (NPD), has been experimentally produced by direct conversion of …             Synergistic algicidal effect and mechanism of two diketopiperazines produced by Chryseobacterium sp. strain GLY-1106 on the harmful bloom-forming Microcystis aeruginosa ▶     Xingliang Guo, Xianglong Liu, Jianliang Pan et al.     A potent algicidal bacterium isolated from Lake Taihu, Chryseobacterium sp. strain GLY-1106, produces two algicidal compounds: 1106-A (cyclo(4-OH-Pro-Leu)) and 1106-B …             Phase diagrams of dune shape and orientation depending on sand availability ▶     Xin Gao, Clément Narteau, Olivier Rozier et al.     New evidence indicates that sand availability does not only control dune type but also the underlying dune growth mechanism and the subsequent dune orientation. Here we …             What factors control superficial lava dome explosivity? ▶     Georges Boudon, Hélène Balcone-Boissard, Benoît Villemant et al.     Dome-forming eruption is a frequent eruptive style and a major hazard on numerous volcanoes worldwide. Lava domes are built by slow extrusion of degassed, viscous magma and may …             ZnO@SnO2 engineered composite photoanodes for dye sensitized solar cells ▶     R. Milan, G. S. Selopal, M. Epifani et al.     Layered multi-oxide concept was applied for fabrication of photoanodes for dye-sensitized solar cells based on ZnO and SnO2, capitalizing on the beneficial properties of each …             Hydrometallurgical Recovery of Metals from Large Printed Circuit Board Pieces ▶     U. Jadhav, H. Hocheng     The recovery of precious metals from waste printed circuit boards (PCBs) is an effective recycling process. This paper presents a promising hydrometallurgical process to recover …             Response of plant nutrient stoichiometry to fertilization varied with plant tissues in a tropical forest ▶     Qifeng Mo, Bi Zou, Yingwen Li et al.     Plant N:P ratios are widely used as indices of nutrient limitation in terrestrial ecosystems, but the response of these metrics in different plant tissues to altered N and P …             A new nanocomposite forward osmosis membrane custom-designed for treating shale gas wastewater ▶     Detao Qin, Zhaoyang Liu, Darren Delai Sun et al.     Managing the wastewater discharged from oil and shale gas fields is a big challenge, because this kind of wastewater is normally polluted by high contents of both oils and salts. …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Junior Research Chairs at Postdoctoral Level     International Centre for Fundamental Physics - Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS-ICFP)            Post Doctoral Research Associate     Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso            Senior Research Scientist     California Institute of Technology            PhD-scholarships     Aarhus University            Research Assistant     University of Bristol            Assistant Professor     California Lutheran University            Postdoctoral Position     University of Geneva Medical School            Postdoctoral Fellow     Brigham & Women's Hospital - Harvard Medical School            Research Associate – Pancreatic Cancer Modelling     University College London (UCL)            Lecturer (Assistant Professor)     University of Bath          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. 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