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15 March 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Arctic Vortex changes alter the sources and isotopic values of precipitation in northeastern US ▶     Tamir Puntsag, Myron J. Mitchell, John L. Campbell et al.     Altered atmospheric circulation, reductions in Arctic sea ice, ocean warming, and changes in evaporation and transpiration are driving changes in the global hydrologic cycle. …             Inter-comparison of Seasonal Variation, Chemical Characteristics, and Source Identification of Atmospheric Fine Particles on Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait ▶     Tsung-Chang Li, Chung-Shin Yuan, Hu-Ching Huang et al.     The spatiotemporal distribution and chemical composition of atmospheric fine particles in areas around the Taiwan Strait were firstly investigated. Fine particles (PM2.5) were …             Monitoring temporal opacity fluctuations of large structures with muon radiography: a calibration experiment using a water tower ▶     Kevin Jourde, Dominique Gibert, Jacques Marteau et al.     Usage of secondary cosmic muons to image the geological structures density distribution significantly developed during the past ten years. Recent applications demonstrate the …             Dynamic channel adjustments in the Jingjiang Reach of the Middle Yangtze River ▶     Junqiang Xia, Shanshan Deng, Jinyou Lu et al.     Significant channel adjustments have occurred in the Jingjiang Reach of the Middle Yangtze River, because of the operation of the Three Gorges Project (TGP). The Jingjiang Reach …             Ecosystem services provided by a complex coastal region: challenges of classification and mapping ▶     Lisa P. Sousa, Ana I. Sousa, Fátima L. Alves et al.     A variety of ecosystem services classification systems and mapping approaches are available in the scientific and technical literature, which needs to be selected and adapted …             Reusable nanosilver-coated magnetic particles for ultrasensitive SERS-based detection of malachite green in water samples ▶     Dan Song, Rong Yang, Chongwen Wang et al.     A novel nanosilver-deposited silica-coated Fe3O4 magnetic particle (Fe3O4@SiO2@Ag) with uniform size, good SERS activity and magnetic responsiveness was synthesized using …             A Simple Geotracer Compositional Correlation Analysis Reveals Oil Charge and Migration Pathways ▶     Yunlai Yang, Khaled Arouri     A novel approach, based on geotracer compositional correlation analysis is reported, which reveals the oil charge sequence and migration pathways for five oil fields in Saudi …             Abrupt climate shift in the Western Mediterranean Sea ▶     K. Schroeder, J. Chiggiato, H. L. Bryden et al.     One century of oceanographic measurements has evidenced gradual increases in temperature and salinity of western Mediterranean water masses, even though the vertical …             Diet of dingoes and other wild dogs in peri-urban areas of north-eastern Australia ▶     Benjamin L. Allen, Erin Carmelito, Matt Amos et al.     Knowledge of the resource requirements of urban predators can improve our understanding of their ecology and assist town planners and wildlife management agencies in developing …             An exceptional fossil skull from South America and the origins of the archosauriform radiation ▶     Felipe L. Pinheiro, Marco A. G. França, Marcel B. Lacerda et al.     Birds, dinosaurs, crocodilians, pterosaurs and their close relatives form the highly diverse clade Archosauriformes. Archosauriforms have a deep evolutionary history, originating …             Preservation of ancestral Cretaceous microflora recovered from a hypersaline oil reservoir ▶     Grégoire Gales, Nicolas Tsesmetzis, Isabel Neria et al.     Microbiology of a hypersaline oil reservoir located in Central Africa was investigated with molecular and culture methods applied to preserved core samples. Here we show that the …             In silico assessment of primers for eDNA studies using PrimerTree and application to characterize the biodiversity surrounding the Cuyahoga River ▶     M. V. Cannon, J. Hester, A. Shalkhauser et al.     Analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) enables the detection of species of interest from water and soil samples, typically using species-specific PCR. Here, we describe a method to …             GIS-NaP1 zeolite microspheres as potential water adsorption material: Influence of initial silica concentration on adsorptive and physical/topological properties ▶     Pankaj Sharma, Ju-Sub Song, Moon Hee Han et al.     GIS-NaP1 zeolite samples were synthesized using seven different Si/Al ratios (5–11) of the hydrothermal reaction mixtures having chemical composition Al2O3:xSiO2:14Na2O:840H2O to …             Local control on precipitation in a fully coupled climate-hydrology model ▶     Morten A. D. Larsen, Jens H. Christensen, Martin Drews et al.     The ability to simulate regional precipitation realistically by climate models is essential to understand and adapt to climate change. Due to the complexity of associated …             Corrigendum: Soot superaggregates from flaming wildfires and their direct radiative forcing ▶     Rajan K. Chakrabarty, Nicholas D. Beres, Hans Moosmüller et al.                 Human activity accelerating the rapid desertification of the Mu Us Sandy Lands, North China ▶     Yunfa Miao, Heling Jin, Jianxin Cui     Over the past several thousand years, arid and semiarid China has experienced a series of asynchronous desertification events in its semiarid sandy and desert regions, but the …             Nitrogen acquisition by plants and microorganisms in a temperate grassland ▶     Qianyuan Liu, Na Qiao, Xingliang Xu et al.     Nitrogen (N) limitation is common in most terrestrial ecosystems, often leading to strong competition between microorganisms and plants. The mechanisms of niche differentiation …             New fossil insect order Permopsocida elucidates major radiation and evolution of suction feeding in hemimetabolous insects (Hexapoda: Acercaria) ▶     Di-Ying Huang, Günter Bechly, Patricia Nel et al.     With nearly 100,000 species, the Acercaria (lice, plant lices, thrips, bugs) including number of economically important species is one of the most successful insect lineages. …             Sex-dependent effects of microcystin-LR on hypothalamic-pituitary-gonad axis and gametogenesis of adult zebrafish ▶     Wanjing Liu, Chuanyue Chen, Liang Chen et al.     While microcystins (MCs) have been reported to exert reproductive toxicity on fish with a sex-dependent effect, the underlying mechanism has been rarely investigated. In the …             DBS-platform for biomonitoring and toxicokinetics of toxicants: proof of concept using LC-MS/MS analysis of fipronil and its metabolites in blood ▶     Kanumuri Siva Rama Raju, Isha Taneja, Mamunur Rashid et al.     A simple, sensitive and high throughput LC-MS/MS method was developed and validated for quantification of fipronil, fipronil sulfone and fipronil desulfinyl in rat and human …             A novel method for correcting scanline-observational bias of discontinuity orientation ▶     Lei Huang, Huiming Tang, Qinwen Tan et al.     Scanline observation is known to introduce an angular bias into the probability distribution of orientation in three-dimensional space. In this paper, numerical solutions …             Nitrogen cycling in an extreme hyperarid environment inferred from δ15N analyses of plants, soils and herbivore diet ▶     Francisca P. Díaz, Matías Frugone, Rodrigo A. Gutiérrez et al.     Climate controls on the nitrogen cycle are suggested by the negative correlation between precipitation and δ15N values across different ecosystems. For arid ecosystems this is …             Element substitution by living organisms: the case of manganese in mollusc shell aragonite ▶     Analia L. Soldati, Dorrit E. Jacob, Pieter Glatzel et al.     Determining the manganese concentration in shells of freshwater bivalves provides a unique way to obtain information about climate and environmental changes during time-intervals …             Erratum: The role of dung beetles in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from cattle farming ▶     Eleanor M. Slade, Terhi Riutta, Tomas Roslin et al.                 Tropical secondary forests regenerating after shifting cultivation in the Philippines uplands are important carbon sinks ▶     Sharif A. Mukul, John Herbohn, Jennifer Firn     In the tropics, shifting cultivation has long been attributed to large scale forest degradation, and remains a major source of uncertainty in forest carbon accounting. In the …             Occurrence and removal of phenolic endocrine disrupting chemicals in the water treatment processes ▶     Xuemin Lv, Sanhua Xiao, Gang Zhang et al.     This paper evaluated the occurrence and removal efficiency of four selected phenolic endocrine disrupting chemicals (bisphenol A (BPA), octylphenol (OP), nonylphenol (NP) and …             Towards population-level conservation in the critically endangered Antarctic blue whale: the number and distribution of their populations ▶     Catherine R. M. Attard, Luciano B. Beheregaray, Luciana M. Möller     Population-level conservation is required to prevent biodiversity loss within a species, but it first necessitates determining the number and distribution of populations. Many …             Characterization of organic matter of plants from lakes by thermal analysis in a N2 atmosphere ▶     Fei Guo, Fengchang Wu, Yunsong Mu et al.     Organic matter (OM) has been characterized using thermal analysis in O2 atmospheres, but it is not clear if OM can be characterized using slow thermal degradation in N2 …             Herbivory in the soft coral Sinularia flexibilis (Alcyoniidae) ▶     Chiara C. Piccinetti, Roberta Ricci, Chiara Pennesi et al.     Our work provides strong support for the hypothesis that Sinularia flexibilis ingests diatoms such as Thalassiosira pseudonana. We assessed algal ingestion by S. flexibilis …             Delta-proteobacterial SAR324 group in hydrothermal plumes on the South Mid-Atlantic Ridge ▶     Huiluo Cao, Chunming Dong, Salim Bougouffa et al.     In the dark ocean, the SAR324 group of Delta-proteobacteria has been associated with a chemolithotrophic lifestyle. 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