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12 January 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         All content now open access including archives! Nature Communications is an open access journal that publishes high-quality research from all areas of the natural sciences. Papers published by the journal represent important advances of significance to specialists within each subject area including the Earth Sciences. Visit the website to explore ALL the content available within your field.           Earth & Environmental Sciences               Long-term fertilization alters chemically-separated soil organic carbon pools: Based on stable C isotope analyses ▶     Xiaolin Dou, Ping He, Xiaoli Cheng et al.     Quantification of dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) pools under the influence of long-term fertilization is essential for predicting carbon (C) sequestration. We combined …             Effect of Different Mulches under Rainfall Concentration System on Corn Production in the Semi-arid Areas of the Loess Plateau ▶     Xiaolong Ren, Peng Zhang, Xiaoli Chen et al.     The ridge and furrow farming system for rainfall concentration (RC) has gradually been popularized to improve the water availability for crops and to increase the water use …             Reconstruction of atmospheric soot history in inland regions from lake sediments over the past 150 years ▶     Y. M. Han, C. Wei, R.-J. Huang et al.     Historical reconstruction of atmospheric black carbon (BC, in the form of char and soot) is still constrained for inland areas. Here we determined and compared the past 150-yr …             Predicting future uncertainty constraints on global warming projections ▶     H. Shiogama, D. Stone, S. Emori et al.     Projections of global mean temperature changes (ΔT) in the future are associated with intrinsic uncertainties. Much climate policy discourse has been guided by “current …             Future Warming Patterns Linked to Today’s Climate Variability ▶     Aiguo Dai     The reliability of model projections of greenhouse gas (GHG)-induced future climate change is often assessed based on models’ ability to simulate the current climate, but there …             Seasonal divergence in the interannual responses of Northern Hemisphere vegetation activity to variations in diurnal climate ▶     Xiuchen Wu, Hongyan Liu, Xiaoyan Li et al.     Seasonal asymmetry in the interannual variations in the daytime and nighttime climate in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) is well documented, but its consequences for vegetation …             Time series analysis of the association between ambient temperature and cerebrovascular morbidity in the elderly in Shanghai, China ▶     Xian-Jing Zhang, Wei-Ping Ma, Nai-Qing Zhao et al.     Research on the association between ambient temperature and cerebrovascular morbidity is scarce in China. In this study, we applied mixed generalized additive model (MGAM) to …             Multi-decadal trends in global terrestrial evapotranspiration and its components ▶     Yongqiang Zhang, Jorge L. Peña-Arancibia, Tim R. McVicar et al.     Evapotranspiration (ET) is the process by which liquid water becomes water vapor and energetically this accounts for much of incoming solar radiation. If this ET did not occur …             Evidence for contact calls in fish: conspecific vocalisations and ambient soundscape influence group cohesion in a nocturnal species ▶     L. van Oosterom, J. C. Montgomery, A. G. Jeffs et al.     Soundscapes provide a new tool for the study of fish communities. Bigeyes (Pempheris adspersa) are nocturnal planktivorous reef fish, feed in loose shoals and are soniferous. …             Distribution, congruence, and hotspots of higher plants in China ▶     Lina Zhao, Jinya Li, Huiyuan Liu et al.     Identifying biodiversity hotspots has become a central issue in setting up priority protection areas, especially as financial resources for biological diversity conservation are …             Low diversity of planktonic bacteria in the tropical ocean ▶     Mathias Milici, Jürgen Tomasch, Melissa L. Wos-Oxley et al.     The diversity of macro-organisms increases towards the equator, with almost no exceptions. It is the most conserved biogeographical pattern on earth and is thought to be related …             Forests as a natural seismic metamaterial: Rayleigh wave bandgaps induced by local resonances ▶     Andrea Colombi, Philippe Roux, Sebastien Guenneau et al.     We explore the thesis that resonances in trees result in forests acting as locally resonant metamaterials for Rayleigh surface waves in the geophysics context. A geophysical …             Spatial Abundance and Distribution of Potential Microbes and Functional Genes Associated with Anaerobic Mineralization of Pentachlorophenol in a Cylindrical Reactor ▶     Zhi-Ling Li, Jun Nan, Cong Huang et al.     Functional interplays of microbial activity, genetic diversity and contaminant transformation are poorly understood in reactors for mineralizing halogenated aromatics …             Does oral exposure to cadmium and lead mediate susceptibility to colitis? The dark-and-bright sides of heavy metals in gut ecology ▶     Jérôme Breton, Catherine Daniel, Cécile Vignal et al.     Although the heavy metals cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) are known environmental health concerns, their long-term impacts on gut ecology and susceptibility to gastrointestinal …             Carbon: nitrogen stoichiometry following afforestation: a global synthesis ▶     Xia Xu, Dejun Li, Xiaoli Cheng et al.     Though carbon (C): nitrogen (N) stoichiometry has been widely studied in terrestrial ecosystems, little is known about its variation following afforestation. By synthesizing the …             Anaerobic decomposition of humic substances by Clostridium from the deep subsurface ▶     Akio Ueno, Satoru Shimizu, Shuji Tamamura et al.     Decomposition of humic substances (HSs) is a slow and cryptic but non-negligible component of carbon cycling in sediments. Aerobic decomposition of HSs by microorganisms in the …             Diversity and interactions of microbial functional genes under differing environmental conditions: insights from a membrane bioreactor and an oxidation ditch ▶     Yu Xia, Man Hu, Xianghua Wen et al.     The effect of environmental conditions on the diversity and interactions of microbial communities has caused tremendous interest in microbial ecology. Here, we found that with …             Assessing the impact of humidex on HFMD in Guangdong Province and its variability across social-economic status and age groups ▶     Wangjian Zhang, Zhicheng Du, Dingmei Zhang et al.     Humidex is a meteorological index that combines the impacts of temperature and humidity, and is directly comparable with dry temperature in degrees Celsius. However, to date, no …             Elevated CO2 impacts bell pepper growth with consequences to Myzus persicae life history, feeding behaviour and virus transmission ability ▶     Beatriz Dáder, Alberto Fereres, Aránzazu Moreno et al.     Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) impacts plant growth and metabolism. Indirectly, the performance and feeding of insects is affected by plant nutritional quality and …             Acute Exposure to Tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) Phosphate (TDCIPP) Causes Hepatic Inflammation and Leads to Hepatotoxicity in Zebrafish ▶     Chunsheng Liu, Guanyong Su, John P. Giesy et al.     Tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCIPP) has been frequently detected in environmental media and has adverse health effect on wildlife and humans. It has been implicated to …             Pathway of FeEDTA transformation and its impact on performance of NOx removal in a chemical absorption-biological reduction integrated process ▶     Wei Li, Jingkai Zhao, Lei Zhang et al.     A novel chemical absorption-biological reduction (CABR) integrated process, employing ferrous ethylenediaminetetraacetate (Fe(II)EDTA) as a solvent, is deemed as a potential …             Unearthing the Antibacterial Mechanism of Medicinal Clay: A Geochemical Approach to Combating Antibiotic Resistance ▶     Keith D. Morrison, Rajeev Misra, Lynda B. Williams     Natural antibacterial clays, when hydrated and applied topically, kill human pathogens including antibiotic resistant strains proliferating worldwide. Only certain clays are …             Abundance, composition and activity of denitrifier communities in metal polluted paddy soils ▶     Yuan Liu, Yongzhuo Liu, Huimin Zhou et al.     Denitrification is one of the most important soil microbial processes leading to the production of nitrous oxide (N2O). The potential changes with metal pollution in soil …             Earliest tea as evidence for one branch of the Silk Road across the Tibetan Plateau ▶     Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Yimin Yang et al.     Phytoliths and biomolecular components extracted from ancient plant remains from Chang’an (Xi’an, the city where the Silk Road begins) and Ngari (Ali) in western Tibet, China, …             A Regional Climate Mode Discovered in the North Atlantic: Dakar Niño/Niña ▶     Pascal Oettli, Yushi Morioka, Toshio Yamagata     The interrannual variability of coastal sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies confined off Senegal is explored from a new viewpoint of the ocean-land-atmosphere interaction. …             Severe summer heatwave and drought strongly reduced carbon uptake in Southern China ▶     Wenping Yuan, Wenwen Cai, Yang Chen et al.     Increasing heatwave and drought events can potentially alter the carbon cycle. Few studies have investigated the impacts of hundred-year return heatwaves and droughts, as those …             Corrigendum: Plant-microbe rhizosphere interactions mediated by Rehmannia glutinosa root exudates under consecutive monoculture ▶     Linkun Wu, Juanying Wang, Weimin Huang et al.                 Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals insights into the streamlined genomes of haplosclerid demosponges ▶     Christine Guzman, Cecilia Conaco     Sponges (Porifera) are one of the most ancestral metazoan groups. They are characterized by a simple body plan lacking the true tissues and organ systems found in other animals. …             Theropod courtship: large scale physical evidence of display arenas and avian-like scrape ceremony behaviour by Cretaceous dinosaurs ▶     Martin G. Lockley, Richard T. McCrea, Lisa G. Buckley et al.     Relationships between non-avian theropod dinosaurs and extant and fossil birds are a major focus of current paleobiological research. Despite extensive phylogenetic and …             Effect of calcium cyanamide, ammonium bicarbonate and lime mixture, and ammonia water on survival of Ralstonia solanacearum and microbial community ▶     Lijuan Liu, Chengliang Sun, Xingxing Liu et al.     The inorganic nitrogenous amendments calcium cyanamide (CC), ammonia water (AW), and a mixture of ammonium bicarbonate with lime (A+L) are popularly used as fumigants to control …             The nature of Ordovician limestone-marl alternations in the Oslo-Asker District (Norway): witnesses of primary glacio-eustasy or diagenetic rhythms? ▶     Chloé E. A. Amberg, Tim Collart, Wout Salenbien et al.     Ordovician limestone-marl alternations in the Oslo-Asker District have been interpreted as signaling glacio-eustatic lowstands, which would support a prolonged “Early Palaeozoic …             Coralline algal physiology is more adversely affected by elevated temperature than reduced pH ▶     Román Manuel Vásquez-Elizondo, Susana Enríquez     In this study we analyzed the physiological responses of coralline algae to ocean acidification (OA) and global warming, by exposing algal thalli of three species with …             Annual soil CO2 efflux in a cold temperate forest in northeastern China: effects of winter snowpack and artificial nitrogen deposition ▶     Boqi Liu, Changcheng Mou, Guoyong Yan et al.     We conducted a snow depth 0 cm (non-snowpack), 10 cm, 20 cm, 30 cm and natural depth) gradient experiment under four quantities of nitrogen addition (control, no added N; low-N, …             Onset of main Phanerozoic marine radiation sparked by emerging Mid Ordovician icehouse ▶     Christian M. Ø. Rasmussen, Clemens V. Ullmann, Kristian G. Jakobsen et al.     The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) was the most rapid and sustained increase in marine Phanerozoic biodiversity. What generated this biotic response across …             A New Method to Jointly Estimate the Mortality Risk of Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and its Components ▶     Dan L. Crouse, Sajeev Philip, Aaron van Donkelaar et al.     Most studies on the association between exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and mortality have considered only total concentration of PM2.5 or individual components of PM…             Factors controlling soil organic carbon stability along a temperate forest altitudinal gradient ▶     Qiuxiang Tian, Hongbo He, Weixin Cheng et al.     Changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) stability may alter carbon release from the soil and, consequently, atmospheric CO2 concentration. The mean annual temperature (MAT) can …             Transcriptome and biomineralization responses of the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata to elevated CO2 and temperature ▶     Shiguo Li, Chuang Liu, Jingliang Huang et al.     Ocean acidification and global warming have been shown to significantly affect the physiological performances of marine calcifiers; however, the underlying mechanisms remain …             Mercury Isotopes as Proxies to Identify Sources and Environmental Impacts of Mercury in Sphalerites ▶     Runsheng Yin, Xinbin Feng, James P. Hurley et al.     During the past few years, evidence of mass independent fractionation (MIF) for mercury (Hg) isotopes have been reported in the Earth’s surface reservoirs, mainly assumed to be …             The role of dung beetles in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from cattle farming ▶     Eleanor M. Slade, Terhi Riutta, Tomas Roslin et al.     Agriculture is one of the largest anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs), with dairy and beef production accounting for nearly two-thirds of emissions. Several recent …             Horizontal Heat Impact of Urban Structures on the Surface Soil Layer and Its Diurnal Patterns under Different Micrometeorological Conditions ▶     Hongxuan Zhou, Dan Hu, Xiaolin Wang et al.     The temperature of the surface soil layer around different orientation walls was investigated horizontally along several construction-soil micro-gradients in Beijing, China. On a …             Alfvén waves as a solar-interplanetary driver of the thermospheric disturbances ▶     Jianpeng Guo, Fengsi Wei, Xueshang Feng et al.     Alfvén waves have been proposed as an important mechanism for the heating of the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the acceleration of solar wind, but they are generally believed to …             Shifts in methanogen community structure and function across a coastal marsh transect: effects of exotic Spartina alterniflora invasion ▶     Junji Yuan, Weixin Ding, Deyan Liu et al.     Invasion of Spartina alterniflora in coastal areas of China increased methane (CH4) emissions. To elucidate the underlying mechanisms, we measured CH4 production potential, …             Pigeons home faster through polluted air ▶     Zhongqiu Li, Franck Courchamp, Daniel T. Blumstein     Air pollution, especially haze pollution, is creating health issues for both humans and other animals. However, remarkably little is known about how animals behaviourally respond …             Shift from complementarity to facilitation on P uptake by intercropped wheat neighboring with faba bean when available soil P is depleted ▶     Chunjie Li, Yan Dong, Haigang Li et al.     Rhizosphere processes stimulate overyielding and facilitative phosphorus (P) uptake in cereal/legume intercropping systems. However, little is known about when and how …             Inactivation of Ricin Toxin by Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields Including Evidences from Cell and Animal Toxicity ▶     Kai Wei, Wei Li, Shan Gao et al.     Ricin is one of the most toxic and easily produced plant protein toxin extracted from the castor oil plant, and it has been classified as a chemical warfare agent. Here, …             Allelopathic interactions between the brown algal genus Lobophora (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) and scleractinian corals ▶     Christophe Vieira, Olivier P. Thomas, Gérald Culioli et al.     Allelopathy has been recently suggested as a mechanism by which macroalgae may outcompete corals in damaged reefs. Members of the brown algal genus Lobophora are commonly …             The long-term effects of planting and harvesting on secondary forest dynamics under climate change in northeastern China ▶     Jing Yao, Xingyuan He, Hongshi He et al.     Unlike the virgin forest in the Changbaishan Nature Reserve in northeastern China, little research on a landscape scale has been conducted on secondary forests in the region …             Effects of sediment influx on the settlement and survival of canopy-forming macrophytes ▶     Hayato Watanabe, Miku Ito, Akira Matsumoto et al.     Kelp forests on coastal rocky shores are negatively impacted by sudden sediment loads that can occur with storms and floods. Using laboratory experiments, we studied the effects …             Efficient Solar Energy Conversion Using CaCu3Ti4O12 Photoanode for Photocatalysis and Photoelectrocatalysis ▶     H. S. Kushwaha, Niyaz A Madhar, B. Ilahi et al.     A highly efficient third generation catalyst, CaCu3Ti4O12 (CCTO) shows excellent photoelectrochemical (PEC) and photocatalytic ability. As only 4% part of the solar spectrum …             Dissolved Organic Carbon Mobilisation in a Groundwater System Stressed by Pumping ▶     P. W. Graham, A. Baker, M. S. Andersen     The concentration and flux of organic carbon in aquifers is influenced by recharge and abstraction, and surface and subsurface processing. In this study groundwater was …             Population dynamics and associated factors of cereal aphids and armyworms under global change ▶     Leyun Wang, Cang Hui, Hardev S. Sandhu et al.     Studying the impacts of global change, which comprises largely climate and landscape changes, on agricultural pests is crucial for developing sustainable pest management. This …             Ecological consequences of long-term browning in lakes ▶     Craig E. Williamson, Erin P. Overholt, Rachel M. Pilla et al.     Increases in terrestrially-derived dissolved organic matter (DOM) have led to the browning of inland waters across regions of northeastern North America and Europe. 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