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09 February 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Earth & Environmental Sciences               Corrigendum: Ammonium sorption and ammonia inhibition of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria explain contrasting soil N2O production ▶     Rodney T. Venterea, Timothy J. Clough, Jeffrey A. Coulter et al.                 Impact of high CO2 on the geochemistry of the coralline algae Lithothamnion glaciale ▶     F. Ragazzola, L. C. Foster, C. J. Jones et al.     Coralline algae are a significant component of the benthic ecosystem. Their ability to withstand physical stresses in high energy environments relies on their skeletal structure …             Unravelling the spatial variation of nitrous oxide emissions from a step-feed plug-flow full scale wastewater treatment plant ▶     Yuting Pan, Ben van den Akker, Liu Ye et al.     Plug-flow activated sludge reactors (ASR) that are step-feed with wastewater are widely adopted in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) due to their ability to maximise the use of …             Salinity altered root distribution and increased diversity of bacterial communities in the rhizosphere soil of Jerusalem artichoke ▶     Hui Yang, Jinxiang Hu, Xiaohua Long et al.     The interaction between roots and bacterial communities in halophytic species is poorly understood. Here, we used Jerusalem artichoke cultivar Nanyu 1 (NY-1) to characterise root …             The effect of helminth infection on the microbial composition and structure of the caprine abomasal microbiome ▶     Robert W. Li, Weizhong Li, Jiajie Sun et al.     Haemonchus contortus is arguably the most injurious helminth parasite for small ruminants. We characterized the impact of H. contortus infection on the caprine abomasal …             Global mismatch between greenhouse gas emissions and the burden of climate change ▶     Glenn Althor, James E. M. Watson, Richard A. Fuller     Countries export much of the harm created by their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions because the Earth’s atmosphere intermixes globally. Yet, the extent to which this leads to …             Response of nitric and nitrous oxide fluxes to N fertilizer application in greenhouse vegetable cropping systems in southeast China ▶     Yaojun Zhang, Feng Lin, Yaguo Jin et al.     It is of great concern worldwide that active nitrogenous gases in the global nitrogen cycle contribute to regional and global-scale environmental issues. Nitrous oxide (N2O) and …             Evidence for Rhythmicity Pacemaker in the Calcification Process of Scleractinian Coral ▶     Eldad Gutner-Hoch, Kenneth Schneider, Jaroslaw Stolarski et al.     Reef-building scleractinian (stony) corals are among the most efficient bio-mineralizing organisms in nature. The calcification rate of scleractinian corals oscillates under …             North Atlantic warming during Dansgaard-Oeschger events synchronous with Antarctic warming and out-of-phase with Greenland climate ▶     Tine L. Rasmussen, Erik Thomsen, Matthias Moros     The precise reason for the differences and out-of-phase relationship between the abrupt Dansgaard-Oeschger warmings in the Nordic seas and Greenland ice cores and the gradual …             Invasive floating macrophytes reduce greenhouse gas emissions from a small tropical lake ▶     K. Attermeyer, S. Flury, R. Jayakumar et al.     Floating macrophytes, including water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), are dominant invasive organisms in tropical aquatic systems, and they may play an important role in …             Anthropogenic sources of underwater sound can modify how sediment-dwelling invertebrates mediate ecosystem properties ▶     Martin Solan, Chris Hauton, Jasmin A. Godbold et al.     Coastal and shelf environments support high levels of biodiversity that are vital in mediating ecosystem processes, but they are also subject to noise associated with mounting …             Direct anodic hydrochloric acid and cathodic caustic production during water electrolysis ▶     Hui-Wen Lin, Rocío Cejudo-Marín, Adriaan W. Jeremiasse et al.     Hydrochloric acid (HCl) and caustic (NaOH) are among the most widely used chemicals by the water industry. Direct anodic electrochemical HCl production by water electrolysis has …             Color tunable low cost transparent heat reflector using copper and titanium oxide for energy saving application ▶     Goutam Kumar Dalapati, Saeid Masudy-Panah, Sing Teng Chua et al.     Multilayer coating structure comprising a copper (Cu) layer sandwiched between titanium dioxide (TiO2) were demonstrated as a transparent heat reflecting (THR) coating on glass …             Corrigendum: Gravity-driven postseismic deformation following the Mw 6.3 2009 L’Aquila (Italy) earthquake ▶     Matteo Albano, Salvatore Barba, Michele Saroli et al.                 Evaluation of the cause of unexplained radiocaesium contamination of brown rice in Fukushima in 2013 using autoradiography and gamma-ray spectrometry ▶     Hisaya Matsunami, Toshifumi Murakami, Hideshi Fujiwara et al.     The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011, caused the release of radioactive materials from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP), contaminating eastern Japan, …             Spatial and seasonal variations of isoprene secondary organic aerosol in China: Significant impact of biomass burning during winter ▶     Xiang Ding, Quan-Fu He, Ru-Qin Shen et al.     Isoprene is a substantial contributor to global secondary organic aerosol (SOA). The formation of isoprene SOA (SOAI) is highly influenced by anthropogenic emissions. Currently, …             Microbial communities play important roles in modulating paddy soil fertility ▶     Xuesong Luo, Xiaoqian Fu, Yun Yang et al.     We studied microbial communities in two paddy soils, which did not receive nitrogen fertilization and were distinguished by the soil properties. The two microbial communities …             Robots Learn to Recognize Individuals from Imitative Encounters with People and Avatars ▶     Sofiane Boucenna, David Cohen, Andrew N. Meltzoff et al.     Prior to language, human infants are prolific imitators. Developmental science grounds infant imitation in the neural coding of actions, and highlights the use of imitation for …             A Porous Aromatic Framework Constructed from Benzene Rings Has a High Adsorption Capacity for Perfluorooctane Sulfonate ▶     Qin Luo, Changwei Zhao, Guixia Liu et al.     A low-cost and easily constructed porous aromatic framework (PAF-45) was successfully prepared using the Scholl reaction. PAF-45 was, for the first time, used to remove …             High production of CH4 and H2 by reducing PET waste water using a non-diaphragm-based electrochemical method ▶     Nam-Gyu Kim, Kwang-Jin Yim, Chan-Soo Kim et al.     In recent years, the worldwide use of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) has increased exponentially. PET wastewater contains ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). In …             Decline in intertidal biota after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster: field observations ▶     Toshihiro Horiguchi, Hiroshi Yoshii, Satoshi Mizuno et al.     In 2011, 2012, and 2013, in the intertidal zones of eastern Japan, we investigated the ecological effects of the severe accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant that …             Internal structure of cesium-bearing radioactive microparticles released from Fukushima nuclear power plant ▶     Noriko Yamaguchi, Masanori Mitome, Akiyama-Hasegawa Kotone et al.     Microparticles containing substantial amounts of radiocesium collected from the ground in Fukushima were investigated mainly by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray …             Simulated effect of calcification feedback on atmospheric CO2 and ocean acidification ▶     Han Zhang, Long Cao     Ocean uptake of anthropogenic CO2 reduces pH and saturation state of calcium carbonate materials of seawater, which could reduce the calcification rate of some marine organisms, …             Spatial isolation and environmental factors drive distinct bacterial and archaeal communities in different types of petroleum reservoirs in China ▶     Peike Gao, Huimei Tian, Yansen Wang et al.     To investigate the spatial distribution of microbial communities and their drivers in petroleum reservoir environments, we performed pyrosequencing of microbial partial 16S rRNA, …             Global Warming Attenuates the Tropical Atlantic-Pacific Teleconnection ▶     Fan Jia, Lixin Wu, Bolan Gan et al.     Changes in global sea surface temperature (SST) since the end of last century display a pattern of widespread warming intercepted by cooling in the eastern equatorial Pacific and …             Possible shift in the ENSO-Indian monsoon rainfall relationship under future global warming ▶     Sarita Azad, M. Rajeevan     EI Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian monsoon rainfall are known to have an inverse relationship, which we have observed in the rainfall spectrum exhibiting a spectral …             Early Pleistocene climate in western arid central Asia inferred from loess-palaeosol sequences ▶     Xin Wang, Haitao Wei, Mehdi Taheri et al.     Arid central Asia (ACA) is one of the most arid regions in the mid-latitudes and one of the main potential dust sources for the northern hemisphere. The lack of in situ early …             New multi-scale perspectives on the stromatolites of Shark Bay, Western Australia ▶     E. P. Suosaari, R. P. Reid, P. E. Playford et al.     A recent field-intensive program in Shark Bay, Western Australia provides new multi-scale perspectives on the world’s most extensive modern stromatolite system. Mapping revealed …             Male hatchling production in sea turtles from one of the world’s largest marine protected areas, the Chagos Archipelago ▶     Nicole Esteban, Jacques-Olivier Laloë, Jeanne A. Mortimer et al.     Sand temperatures at nest depths and implications for hatchling sex ratios of hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) and green turtles (Chelonia mydas) nesting in the Chagos …             The phylogeny and evolutionary history of tyrannosauroid dinosaurs ▶     Stephen L. Brusatte, Thomas D. Carr     Tyrannosauroids—the group of carnivores including Tyrannosaurs rex—are some of the most familiar dinosaurs of all. A surge of recent discoveries has helped clarify some aspects …             Global spatially explicit CO2 emission metrics for forest bioenergy ▶     Francesco Cherubini, Mark Huijbregts, Georg Kindermann et al.     Emission metrics aggregate climate impacts of greenhouse gases to common units such as CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq.). Examples include the global warming potential (GWP), the global …             Levels and potential health risk of heavy metals in marketed vegetables in Zhejiang, China ▶     Xiao-Dong Pan, Ping-Gu Wu, Xian-Gen Jiang     The present study analyzed 5785 vegetables for concentrations of As, Cd, Cr, Pb, Ni and Hg, and estimated the health risk to local consumers by deterministic (point estimates) …             Comparison of Particle-Associated Bacteria from a Drinking Water Treatment Plant and Distribution Reservoirs with Different Water Sources ▶     G. Liu, F. Q. Ling, E. J. van der Mark et al.     This study assessed the characteristics of and changes in the suspended particles and the associated bacteria in an unchlorinated drinking water distribution system and its …             Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots Covalently Functionalized PVDF Membrane with Significantly-Enhanced Bactericidal and Antibiofouling Performances ▶     Zhiping Zeng, Dingshan Yu, Ziming He et al.     Covalent bonding of graphene oxide quantum dots (GOQDs) onto amino modified polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane has generated a new type of nano-carbon functionalized …               • Careers & Jobs         naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoc Positions     Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems            Postdoctoral Scholar     University of Chicago            Postdoctoral Associate     Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute            Postdoctoral Research Associate     University of Liverpool            Bioinformatician (Fixed Term)     University of Cambridge            NMR Metabolomics Technician     University of Birmingham            Doctoral student in computational biochemistry     Linnaeus University            12 Doctoral Positions     Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen            Scientist I     The Allen Institute for Brain Science          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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