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08 December 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Monitoring Network Confirms Land Use Change is a Substantial Component of the Forest Carbon Sink in the eastern United States ▶     C. W. Woodall, B. F. Walters, J. W. Coulston et al.     Quantifying forest carbon (C) stocks and stock change within a matrix of land use (LU) and L change is a central component of large-scale forest C monitoring and reporting …             Climate and soil properties limit the positive effects of land use reversion on carbon storage in Eastern Australia ▶     S.M.F. Rabbi, Matthew Tighe, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.     Australia’s “Direct Action” climate change policy relies on purchasing greenhouse gas abatement from projects undertaking approved abatement activities. Management of soil …             The effect of temperature on organic carbon degradation in marine sediments ▶     Alberto Malinverno, Ernesto A. Martinez     The degradation of sedimentary particulate organic carbon (POC) is a key carbon cycle process that fuels the deep subseafloor biosphere. The reactivity of POC is expected to …             Distant Influence of Kuroshio Eddies on North Pacific Weather Patterns? ▶     Xiaohui Ma, Ping Chang, R. Saravanan et al.     High-resolution satellite measurements of surface winds and sea-surface temperature (SST) reveal strong coupling between meso-scale ocean eddies and near-surface atmospheric flow …             Low-temperature synthesis of high-ordered anatase TiO2 nanotube array films coated with exposed {001} nanofacets ▶     Jie Ding, Zhennan Huang, Jihao Zhu et al.     High-ordered anatase TiO2 nanotube array films coated with exposed high-reactive {001} nanofacets were fabricated by a modified hydrothermal method using amorphous anodic TiO2 …             Contribution of human and climate change impacts to changes in streamflow of Canada ▶     Xuezhi Tan, Thian Yew Gan     Climate change exerts great influence on streamflow by changing precipitation, temperature, snowpack and potential evapotranspiration (PET), while human activities in a watershed …             Arsenic stress after the Proterozoic glaciations ▶     Ernest Chi Fru, Emma Arvestål, Nolwenn Callac et al.     Protection against arsenic damage in organisms positioned deep in the tree of life points to early evolutionary sensitization. Here, marine sedimentary records reveal a …             Quantifying crustal thickness over time in magmatic arcs ▶     Lucia Profeta, Mihai N. Ducea, James B. Chapman et al.     We present global and regional correlations between whole-rock values of Sr/Y and La/Yb and crustal thickness for intermediate rocks from modern subduction-related magmatic arcs …             Shortfalls in the global protected area network at representing marine biodiversity ▶     Carissa J. Klein, Christopher J. Brown, Benjamin S. Halpern et al.     The first international goal for establishing marine protected areas (MPAs) to conserve the ocean’s biodiversity was set in 2002. Since 2006, the Convention on Biological …             Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in wetland soils under different land uses along a 100-year chronosequence of reclamation in a Chinese estuary ▶     Junhong Bai, Qiongqiong Lu, Qingqing Zhao et al.     Soil profiles were collected at a depth of 30 cm in ditch wetlands (DWs), riverine wetlands (RiWs) and reclaimed wetlands (ReWs) along a 100-year chronosequence of reclamation in …             Multiple regimes of robust patterns between network structure and biodiversity ▶     Luis F. Jover, Cesar O. Flores, Michael H. Cortez et al.     Ecological networks such as plant-pollinator and host-parasite networks have structured interactions that define who interacts with whom. The structure of interactions also …             Assimilation of the seabird and ship drift data in the north-eastern sea of Japan into an operational ocean nowcast/forecast system ▶     Yasumasa Miyazawa, Xinyu Guo, Sergey M. Varlamov et al.     At the present time, ocean current is being operationally monitored mainly by combined use of numerical ocean nowcast/forecast models and satellite remote sensing data. …             Differences in net global warming potential and greenhouse gas intensity between major rice-based cropping systems in China ▶     Zhengqin Xiong, Yinglie Liu, Zhen Wu et al.     Double rice (DR) and upland crop-single rice (UR) systems are the major rice-based cropping systems in China, yet differences in net global warming potential (NGWP) and …             What Role do Hurricanes Play in Sediment Delivery to Subsiding River Deltas? ▶     James E. Smith, Samuel J. Bentley, Gregg A. Snedden et al.     The Mississippi River Delta (MRD) has undergone tremendous land loss over the past century due to natural and anthropogenic influences, a fate shared by many river deltas …             Characteristics of the shark fisheries of Fiji ▶     Kerstin B. J. Glaus, Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser, Patricia Burkhardt-Holm et al.     Limited information is available on artisanal and subsistence shark fisheries across the Pacific. The aim of this study was to investigate Fiji’s inshore fisheries which catch …             Revealing the characteristics of a novel bioflocculant and its flocculation performance in Microcystis aeruginosa removal ▶     Pengfei Sun, Cai Hui, Naling Bai et al.     In the present work, a novel bioflocculant, EPS-1, was prepared and used to flocculate the kaolin suspension and Microcystis aeruginosa. We focused on the characteristics and …             Visible light photoactivity of Polypropylene coated Nano-TiO2 for dyes degradation in water ▶     R. Giovannetti, C. A. D’ Amato, M. Zannotti et al.     The use of Polypropylene as support material for nano-TiO2 photocatalyst in the photodegradation of Alizarin Red S in water solutions under the action of visible light was …             Limits to the thermal tolerance of corals adapted to a highly fluctuating, naturally extreme temperature environment ▶     Verena Schoepf, Michael Stat, James L. Falter et al.     Naturally extreme temperature environments can provide important insights into the processes underlying coral thermal tolerance. We determined the bleaching resistance of …             Productivity and sustainability of rainfed wheat-soybean system in the North China Plain: results from a long-term experiment and crop modelling ▶     Wei Qin, Daozhong Wang, Xisheng Guo et al.     A quantitative understanding of yield response to water and nutrients is key to improving the productivity and sustainability of rainfed cropping systems. Here, we quantified the …             Non-traditional stable isotope behaviors in immiscible silica-melts in a mafic magma chamber ▶     Dan Zhu, Huiming Bao, Yun Liu     Non-traditional stable isotopes have increasingly been applied to studies of igneous processes including planetary differentiation. Equilibrium isotope fractionation of these …             Patterns of relative magnitudes of soil energy channels and their relationships with environmental factors in different ecosystems in Romania ▶     Marcel Ciobanu, Iuliana Popovici, Jie Zhao et al.     The percentage compositions of soil herbivorous, bacterivorous and fungivorous nematodes in forests, grasslands and scrubs in Romania was analysed. Percentages of nematode …             Soil recovery across a chronosequence of restored wetlands in the Florida Everglades ▶     Qibing Wang, Yuncong Li, Min Zhang     The restoration project in the Hole-in-the-Donut of Everglades National Park in Florida, USA is to reestablish native wetlands by complete removal of the invasive plants and the …             Effects of Long-term Conservation Tillage on Soil Nutrients in Sloping Fields in Regions Characterized by Water and Wind Erosion ▶     Chunjian Tan, Xue Cao, Shuai Yuan et al.     Conservation tillage is commonly used in regions affected by water and wind erosion. To understand the effects of conservation tillage on soil nutrients and yield, a long-term …             Astronomical and Hydrological Perspective of Mountain Impacts on the Asian Summer Monsoon ▶     Bian He, Guoxiong Wu, Yimin Liu et al.     The Asian summer monsoon has great socioeconomic impacts. Understanding how the huge Tibetan and Iranian Plateaus affect the Asian summer monsoon is of great scientific value and …             The potential for carbon bio-sequestration in China’s paddy rice (Oryza sativa L.) as impacted by slag-based silicate fertilizer ▶     Alin Song, Dongfeng Ning, Fenliang Fan et al.     Rice is a typical silicon-accumulating plant. Silicon (Si), deposited as phytoliths during plant growth, has been shown to occlude organic carbon, which may prove to have …             Isolation and characterization of two novel halotolerant Catechol 2, 3-dioxygenases from a halophilic bacterial consortium ▶     Guang Guo, Tingting Fang, Chongyang Wang et al.     Study of enzymes in halophiles will help to understand the mechanism of aromatic hydrocarbons degradation in saline environment. In this study, two novel catechol …             Spliced leader RNA trans-splicing discovered in copepods ▶     Feifei Yang, Donghui Xu, Yunyun Zhuang et al.     Copepods are one of the most abundant metazoans in the marine ecosystem, constituting a critical link in aquatic food webs and contributing significantly to the global carbon …             Elasticity of Ferropericlase across the Spin Crossover in the Earth’s Lower Mantle ▶     Jing Yang, Xinyue Tong, Jung-Fu Lin et al.     Knowing the elasticity of ferropericlase across the spin transition can help explain seismic and mineralogical models of the lower-mantle including the origin of seismic …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Clinical Research Fellow     Imperial College London            3 PhD positions - Research Assistant     Technische Universität Berlin            Research Fellow     Queen's University Belfast            Staff Associate     Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center            Senior Bioinformatician Band 6     Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation            Postdoctoral Fellow     Rutgers New Jersey Medical School            Young Researchers     Wallenberg Academy Fellows - Swedish university            Postdoc Positions     University of Texas            Research Fellow Job     Mayo Clinic            Tenure-Track Faculty Position     Ohio State University          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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