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22 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               Pinus sylvestris as a missing source of nitrous oxide and methane in boreal forest ▶     Katerina Machacova, Jaana Bäck, Anni Vanhatalo et al.     Boreal forests comprise 73% of the world’s coniferous forests. Based on forest floor measurements, they have been considered a significant natural sink of methane (CH4) and a …             Palaeomagnetism of the Upper Miocene- Lower Pliocene lavas from the East Carpathians: contribution to the paleosecular variation of geomagnetic field ▶     Mădălina Vişan, Cristian G. Panaiotu, Cristian Necula et al.     Investigations of the paleosecular variation of the geomagnetic field on geological timescales depend on globally distributed data sets from lava flows. We report new …             Historical Records of Mercury Stable Isotopes in Sediments of Tibetan Lakes ▶     Runsheng Yin, Xinbin Feng, James P. Hurley et al.     The Tibetan Plateau (TP), known as the “Third Pole”, is a critical zone for atmospheric mercury (Hg) deposition. Increasing anthropogenic activities in the globe leads to …             Impact of the representation of stomatal conductance on model projections of heatwave intensity ▶     Jatin Kala, Martin G. De Kauwe, Andy J. Pitman et al.     Stomatal conductance links plant water use and carbon uptake, and is a critical process for the land surface component of climate models. However, stomatal conductance schemes …             In situ Fabrication of α-Bi2O3/(BiO)2CO3 Nanoplate Heterojunctions with Tunable Optical Property and Photocatalytic Activity ▶     Yu Huang, Wei Wang, Qian Zhang et al.     Exploring the full potential use of heterojunction photocatalysts containing bismuth has attracted considerable interest in recent years. Fabrication of well-defined …             The conifer biomarkers dehydroabietic and abietic acids are widespread in Cyanobacteria ▶     Maria Sofia Costa, Adriana Rego, Vitor Ramos et al.     Terpenes, a large family of natural products with important applications, are commonly associated with plants and fungi. The diterpenoids dehydroabietic and abietic acids are …             Nighttime dissolution in a temperate coastal ocean ecosystem increases under acidification ▶     Lester Kwiatkowski, Brian Gaylord, Tessa Hill et al.     Anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are causing ocean acidification, lowering seawater aragonite (CaCO3) saturation state (Ωarag), with potentially substantial …             Habitat constraints and self-thinning shape Mediterranean red coral deep population structure: implications for conservation practice ▶     Alessandro Cau, Lorenzo Bramanti, Rita Cannas et al.     The Mediterranean red coral, Corallium rubrum, is one of the most precious corals worldwide. Below 50 m depth, C. rubrum populations are generally characterised by large and …             Origin of the mysterious Yin-Shang bronzes in China indicated by lead isotopes ▶     Wei-dong Sun, Li-peng Zhang, Jia Guo et al.     Fine Yin-Shang bronzes containing lead with puzzlingly highly radiogenic isotopic compositions appeared suddenly in the alluvial plain of the Yellow River around 1400 BC. The …             Nighttime warming enhances drought resistance of plant communities in a temperate steppe ▶     Zhongling Yang, Lin Jiang, Fanglong Su et al.     Drought events could have profound influence on plant community structure and ecosystem function, and have subsequent impacts on community stability, but we know little about how …             A new Burgess Shale-type deposit from the Ediacaran of western Mongolia ▶     Stephen Q. Dornbos, Tatsuo Oji, Akihiro Kanayama et al.     Preservation of soft-bodied organisms is exceedingly rare in the fossil record. One way that such fossils are preserved is as carbonaceous compressions in fined-grained marine …             Effects of Microporosity and Surface Chemistry on Separation Performances of N-Containing Pitch-Based Activated Carbons for CO2/N2 Binary Mixture ▶     Min-Sang Lee, Mira Park, Hak Yong Kim et al.     In this study, N-containing pitch-based activated carbons (NPCs) were prepared using petroleum pitch with a low softening point and melamine with a high nitrogen content. The …             Influence of pH, competing ions, and salinity on the sorption of strontium and cobalt onto biogenic hydroxyapatite ▶     Stephanie Handley-Sidhu, Thomas K. Mullan, Quentin Grail et al.     Anthropogenic radionuclides contaminate a range of environments as a result of nuclear activities, for example, leakage from waste storage tanks/ponds (e.g. Hanford, USA or …             Contrasting responses of water use efficiency to drought across global terrestrial ecosystems ▶     Yuting Yang, Huade Guan, Okke Batelaan et al.     Drought is an intermittent disturbance of the water cycle that profoundly affects the terrestrial carbon cycle. However, the response of the coupled water and carbon cycles to …             Complex responses of spring vegetation growth to climate in a moisture-limited alpine meadow ▶     Hasbagan Ganjurjav, Qingzhu Gao, Mark W. Schwartz et al.     Since 2000, the phenology has advanced in some years and at some locations on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, whereas it has been delayed in others. To understand the variations in …             Effects of carbon-to-sulfur (C/S) ratio and nitrate (N) dosage on Denitrifying Sulfur cycle-associated Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (DS-EBPR) ▶     Mei Yu, Hui Lu, Di Wu et al.     In this study, the Denitrifying Sulfur cycle-associated Enhanced Biological Phosphorous Removal (DS-EBPR) with 20 mg P/L/d of the volumetric P removal rate was successfully …             A new Bi-based visible-light-sensitive photocatalyst BiLa1.4Ca0.6O4.2: crystal structure, optical property and photocatalytic activity ▶     WenWu Zhong, YanFang Lou, ShiFeng Jin et al.     A new compound of BiLa1.4Ca0.6O4.2 is synthesized through solid state reaction, where the Ca substitutes, in part, the La site in a stable BiLa2O4.5 phase. The structure of the …             Thermal niche estimators and the capability of poor dispersal species to cope with climate change ▶     David Sánchez-Fernández, Valeria Rizzo, Alexandra Cieslak et al.     For management strategies in the context of global warming, accurate predictions of species response are mandatory. However, to date most predictions are based on niche …             Precision wildlife monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles ▶     Jarrod C. Hodgson, Shane M. Baylis, Rowan Mott et al.     Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) represent a new frontier in environmental research. Their use has the potential to revolutionise the field if they prove capable of improving data …             Self-Organizing Maps-based ocean currents forecasting system ▶     Ivica Vilibić, Jadranka Šepić, Hrvoje Mihanović et al.     An ocean surface currents forecasting system, based on a Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) neural network algorithm, high-frequency (HF) ocean radar measurements and numerical weather …             A comparison of no-slip, stress-free and inviscid models of rapidly rotating fluid in a spherical shell ▶     Philip W. Livermore, Lewis M. Bailey, Rainer Hollerbach     We investigate how the choice of either no-slip or stress-free boundary conditions affects numerical models of rapidly rotating flow in Earth’s core by computing solutions of the …             Impact of mooring activities on carbon stocks in seagrass meadows ▶     O. Serrano, R. Ruhon, P. S. Lavery et al.     Boating activities are one of the causes that threaten seagrass meadows and the ecosystem services they provide. Mechanical destruction of seagrass habitats may also trigger the …             High phylogenetic diversity is preserved in species-poor high-elevation temperate moth assemblages ▶     Yi Zou, Weiguo Sang, Axel Hausmann et al.     Understanding the diversity and composition of species assemblages and identifying underlying biotic and abiotic determinants represent great ecological challenges. Addressing …             Delayed signatures of underground nuclear explosions ▶     Charles R. Carrigan, Yunwei Sun, Steven L. Hunter et al.     Radionuclide signals from underground nuclear explosions (UNEs) are strongly influenced by the surrounding hydrogeologic regime. One effect of containment is delay of …             Nitrate fertilisation does not enhance CO2 responses in two tropical seagrass species ▶     Y. X. Ow, N. Vogel, C. J. Collier et al.     Seagrasses are often considered “winners” of ocean acidification (OA); however, seagrass productivity responses to OA could be limited by nitrogen availability, since …             The importance of interacting climate modes on Australia’s contribution to global carbon cycle extremes ▶     James Cleverly, Derek Eamus, Qunying Luo et al.     The global carbon cycle is highly sensitive to climate-driven fluctuations of precipitation, especially in the Southern Hemisphere. This was clearly manifested by a 20% increase …             Bioavailability of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and their Potential Application in Eco-risk Assessment and Source Apportionment in Urban River Sediment ▶     Xunan Yang, Liuqian Yu, Zefang Chen et al.     Traditional risk assessment and source apportionment of sediments based on bulk polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can introduce biases due to unknown aging effects in …             Development of a method for detection and quantification of B. brongniartii and B. bassiana in soil ▶     L. Canfora, E. Malusà, C. Tkaczuk et al.     A culture independent method based on qPCR was developed for the detection and quantification of two fungal inoculants in soil. The aim was to adapt a genotyping approach based …             Dioxins reformation and destruction in secondary copper smelting fly ash under ball milling ▶     Giovanni Cagnetta, Mohammed Mansour Hassan, Jun Huang et al.     Secondary copper recovery is attracting increasing interest because of the growth of copper containing waste including e-waste. 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