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31 May 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Earth & Environmental Sciences               Same pattern, different mechanism: Locking onto the role of key species in seafloor ecosystem process ▶     Sarah Ann Woodin, Nils Volkenborn, Conrad A. Pilditch et al.     Seafloor biodiversity is a key mediator of ecosystem functioning, but its role is often excluded from global budgets or simplified to black boxes in models. New techniques allow …             New insights into the transport processes controlling the sulfate-methane-transition-zone near methane vents ▶     Nabil Sultan, Sébastien Garziglia, Livio Ruffine     Over the past years, several studies have raised concerns about the possible interactions between methane hydrate decomposition and external change. To carry out such an …             Rapid green assembly of antimicrobial nanobunches ▶     Jeong Hoon Byeon     Antimicrobial nanobunches with different amounts of chitosan-capped Ag were prepared by continuous gas-liquid green route under ultrasound irradiation. Spark-produced aerosol Cu …             A new family of bizarre durophagous carnivorous marsupials from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland ▶     M. Archer, S. J. Hand, K. H. Black et al.     A new specimen of the bizarrely specialised Malleodectes mirabilis from middle Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area provides the first and only information …             The significance of droughts for hyporheic dwellers: evidence from freshwater crayfish ▶     Antonín Kouba, Jan Tíkal, Petr Císař et al.     Freshwater biodiversity is globally threatened by various factors while severe weather events like long-term droughts may be substantially devastating. In order to remain in …             Dynamic spatial patterns of leaf traits affect total respiration on the crown scale ▶     Xiaolin Wang, Hongxuan Zhou, Fengsen Han et al.     Temporal and spatial variations of leaf traits caused conflicting conclusions and great estimating errors of total carbon budget on crown scales. However, there is no effective …             Climatic and environmental aspects of the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary in 1242 CE ▶     Ulf Büntgen, Nicola Di Cosmo     The Mongol invasion of Eastern Europe, and especially its sudden withdrawal from Hungary in 1242 CE, has generated much speculation and an array of controversial theories. None …             Environmental Fate of Chiral Herbicide Fenoxaprop-ethyl in Water-Sediment Microcosms ▶     Xu Jing, Guojun Yao, Donghui Liu et al.     The environmental fate of the herbicide fenoxaprop-ethyl (FE) in water, sediment and water-sediment microcosm was studied and degradation products fenoxaprop (FA), …             Radiocarbon dating of prehistoric phytoliths: a preliminary study of archaeological sites in China ▶     Xinxin Zuo, Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang et al.     Phytoliths can occlude some organic carbon during their deposition in plants. This carbon fraction is recognised as an ideal dating material because of its high resistance to …             Soil Water Balance and Water Use Efficiency of Dryland Wheat in Different Precipitation Years in Response to Green Manure Approach ▶     Dabin Zhang, Pengwei Yao, Zhao Na et al.     Winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) monoculture is conventionally cultivated followed by two to three months of summer fallow in the Loess Plateau. To develop a sustainable …             The decisive role of free water in determining homogenous ice nucleation behavior of aqueous solutions ▶     Qiang Wang, Lishan Zhao, Chenxi Li et al.     It is a challenging issue to quantitatively characterize how the solute and pressure affect the homogeneous ice nucleation in a supercooled solution. By measuring the glass …             Percolation Phase Transition of Surface Air Temperature Networks under Attacks of El Niño/La Niña ▶     Zhenghui Lu, Naiming Yuan, Zuntao Fu     In this study, sea surface air temperature over the Pacific is constructed as a network, and the influences of sea surface temperature anomaly in the tropical central eastern …             Heat generation and light scattering of green fluorescent protein-like pigments in coral tissue ▶     Niclas H. Lyndby, Michael Kühl, Daniel Wangpraseurt     Green fluorescent protein (GFP)-like pigments have been proposed to have beneficial effects on coral photobiology. Here, we investigated the relationships between green …             Unrealistically pristine air in the Arctic produced by current global scale models ▶     Yousuke Sato, Hiroaki Miura, Hisashi Yashiro et al.     Black carbon aerosol (BCA) in the Arctic has profound impacts on the global climate system through radiation processes. Despite its enormous impacts, current global scale models, …             A method of undifferenced ambiguity resolution for GPS+GLONASS precise point positioning ▶     Wenting Yi, Weiwei Song, Yidong Lou et al.     Integer ambiguity resolution is critical for achieving positions of high precision and for shortening the convergence time of precise point positioning (PPP). However, GLONASS …             Potential pest transfer mediated by international ornamental plant trade ▶     Jiří Patoka, Martin Bláha, Lukáš Kalous et al.     In recent years, the keeping of ornamental freshwater animals and plants in garden ponds has been growing in popularity. Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is one of the …             Preservation of Archaeal Surface Layer Structure During Mineralization ▶     Adrienne Kish, Jennyfer Miot, Carine Lombard et al.     Proteinaceous surface layers (S-layers) are highly ordered, crystalline structures commonly found in prokaryotic cell envelopes that augment their structural stability and modify …             State-space models’ dirty little secrets: even simple linear Gaussian models can have estimation problems ▶     Marie Auger-Méthé, Chris Field, Christoffer M. Albertsen et al.     State-space models (SSMs) are increasingly used in ecology to model time-series such as animal movement paths and population dynamics. This type of hierarchical model is often …             Oxygen isotope in archaeological bioapatites from India: Implications to climate change and decline of Bronze Age Harappan civilization ▶     Anindya Sarkar, Arati Deshpande Mukherjee, M. K. Bera et al.     The antiquity and decline of the Bronze Age Harappan civilization in the Indus-Ghaggar-Hakra river valleys is an enigma in archaeology. Weakening of the monsoon after ~5 ka BP …             Diversity of burial rates in convergent settings decreased as Earth aged ▶     Gautier Nicoli, Jean-François Moyen, Gary Stevens     The evolution and the growth of the continental crust is inextricably linked to the evolution of Earth’s geodynamic processes. The detrital zircon record within the continental …             Phylogenetic niche conservatism explains an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient in freshwater arthropods ▶     Jérôme Morinière, Matthew H. Van Dam, Oliver Hawlitschek et al.     The underlying mechanisms responsible for the general increase in species richness from temperate regions to the tropics remain equivocal. Many hypotheses have been proposed to …             Novel insights into iron regulation and requirement in marine medaka Oryzias melastigma ▶     Jian Wang, Wen-Xiong Wang     Iron (Fe) is an essential trace element for marine fish. However, our knowledge of Fe requirements at different development stages of marine fish is still limited. Here, we …             Effects of consecutive monoculture of Pseudostellaria heterophylla on soil fungal community as determined by pyrosequencing ▶     Linkun Wu, Jun Chen, Hongmiao Wu et al.     Under consecutive monoculture, the biomass and quality of Pseudostellaria heterophylla declines significantly. In this study, a three-year field experiment was conducted to …             Surface Plasmon Enhanced Photocatalysis of Au/Pt-decorated TiO2 Nanopillar Arrays ▶     Shuang Shuang, Ruitao Lv, Zheng Xie et al.     The low quantum yields and lack of visible light utilization hinder the practical application of TiO2 in high-performance photocatalysis. Herein, we present a design of TiO2 …             Whole genome analysis of halotolerant and alkalotolerant plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium Klebsiella sp. D5A ▶     Wuxing Liu, Qingling Wang, Jinyu Hou et al.     This research undertook the systematic analysis of the Klebsiella sp. 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