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06 December 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Earth & Environmental Sciences               Robust contribution of decadal anomalies to the frequency of central-Pacific El Niño ▶     Arnold Sullivan, Jing-Jia Luo, Anthony C. Hirst et al.     During year-to-year El Niño events in recent decades, major sea surface warming has occurred frequently in the central Pacific. This is distinct from the eastern Pacific warming …             Black carbon radiative forcing at TOA decreased during aging ▶     Yu Wu, Tianhai Cheng, Lijuan Zheng et al.     During aging processing, black carbon (also called soot) particles may tend to be mixed with other aerosols, and highly influence their radiative forcing. In this study, freshly …             Robust increase in extreme summer rainfall intensity during the past four decades observed in China ▶     Chan Xiao, Peili Wu, Lixia Zhang et al.     Global warming increases the moisture holding capacity of the atmosphere and consequently the potential risks of extreme rainfall. Here we show that maximum hourly summer …             Metagenomic profiling of historic Colorado Front Range flood impact on distribution of riverine antibiotic resistance genes ▶     Emily Garner, Joshua S. Wallace, Gustavo Arango Argoty et al.     Record-breaking floods in September 2013 caused massive damage to homes and infrastructure across the Colorado Front Range and heavily impacted the Cache La Poudre River …             Heterotrophy promotes the re-establishment of photosynthate translocation in a symbiotic coral after heat stress ▶     Pascale Tremblay, Andrea Gori, Jean François Maguer et al.     Symbiotic scleractinian corals are particularly affected by climate change stress and respond by bleaching (losing their symbiotic dinoflagellate partners). Recently, the …             Adsorption of methylene blue on an agro-waste oiltea shell with and without fungal treatment ▶     Jiayang Liu, Enzhong Li, Xiaojuan You et al.     A lignocellulosic waste oiltea shell (OTS) was evaluated as an inexpensive sorbent to remove methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solution. Fungal treatment of OTS increased the MB …             Synergistically strengthened 3D micro-scavenger cage adsorbent for selective removal of radioactive cesium ▶     Sung-Chan Jang, Sung-Min Kang, Yuvaraj Haldorai et al.     A novel microporous three-dimensional pomegranate-like micro-scavenger cage (P-MSC) composite has been synthesized by immobilization of iron phyllosilicates clay onto a Prussian …             Lignin-AuNPs liquid marble for remotely-controllable detection of Pb2+ ▶     Guocheng Han, Xiaoying Wang, Jonathan Hamel et al.     This work reported the green and facile fabrication of a versatile lignin-AuNP composite, which was readily and remotely encapsulated to form novel liquid marbles. The marbles …             Magnitude and pattern of Arctic warming governed by the seasonality of radiative forcing ▶     R. Bintanja, F. Krikken     Observed and projected climate warming is strongest in the Arctic regions, peaking in autumn/winter. Attempts to explain this feature have focused primarily on identifying the …             Three millennia of heavy rainfalls in Western Mediterranean: frequency, seasonality and atmospheric drivers ▶     J. P. Corella, B. L. Valero-Garcés, S. M. Vicente- Serrano et al.     Documenting subdecadal-scale heavy rainfall (HR) variability over several millennia can rarely be accomplished due to the paucity of high resolution, homogeneous and continuous …             Ionic liquids modified graphene oxide composites: a high efficient adsorbent for phthalates from aqueous solution ▶     Xinguang Zhou, Yinglu Zhang, Zuteng Huang et al.     In 2015, more than 30% of erasers were found to contain a PAE content that exceeded the 0.1% limit established by the Quality and Technology Supervision Bureau of Jiangsu …             Intracellular mechanisms of solar water disinfection ▶     María Castro-Alférez, María Inmaculada Polo-López, Pilar Fernández-Ibáñez     Solar water disinfection (SODIS) is a zero-cost intervention measure to disinfect drinking water in areas of poor access to improved water sources, used by more than 6 million …             Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) emission control by aerobic sulfate reduction in landfill ▶     Yuyang Long, Yuan Fang, Dongsheng Shen et al.     H2S emissions from landfill sites resulting from sulfate reduction has become a serious human health and ecological safety issue. This study investigated H2S emission behavior …             Acute Effects of Nitrogen Dioxide on Cardiovascular Mortality in Beijing: An Exploration of Spatial Heterogeneity and the District-specific Predictors ▶     Kai Luo, Runkui Li, Wenjing Li et al.     The exploration of spatial variation and predictors of the effects of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on fatal health outcomes is still sparse. In a multilevel case-crossover study in …             A possible space-based tsunami early warning system using observations of the tsunami ionospheric hole ▶     Masashi Kamogawa, Yoshiaki Orihara, Chiaki Tsurudome et al.     Ionospheric plasma disturbances after a large tsunami can be detected by measurement of the total electron content (TEC) between a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite and …             Irrigation water productivity is more influenced by agronomic practice factors than by climatic factors in Hexi Corridor, Northwest China ▶     Xiaolin Li, Xiaotao Zhang, Jun Niu et al.     Quantifying the influence of driving factors on irrigation water productivity (IWP) is vital for efficient agricultural water use. This study analyzed contributions of agronomic …             Occurrence, temporal trends, and half-lives of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in occupational workers in China ▶     Jianjie Fu, Yan Gao, Lin Cui et al.     Paired serum and urine samples were collected from workers in a fluorochemical plant from 2008 to 2012 (n = 302) to investigate the level, temporal trends, and half-lives of …             Erratum: Can native clonal moso bamboo encroach on adjacent natural forest without human intervention? ▶     Shangbin Bai, Yixiang Wang, Richard T. Conant et al.                 Sailfish migrations connect productive coastal areas in the West Atlantic Ocean ▶     Chi Hin Lam, Benjamin Galuardi, Anthony Mendillo et al.     Isla Mujeres, Mexico is home to one of the most well-known aggregations of sailfish. Despite its fisheries prominence, little is known about this sailfish assemblage, or its …             Advanced Fabrication of Chemically Bonded Graphene/TiO2 Continuous Fibers with Enhanced Broadband Photocatalytic Properties and Involved Mechanisms Exploration ▶     Qingzhe Zhang, Nan Bao, Xinqiang Wang et al.     In this article, a novel route for the synthesis of graphene/TiO2 continuous fibers (GTF) using force-spinning combined with water vapor annealing method is reported for the …             Using Baidu Search Index to Predict Dengue Outbreak in China ▶     Kangkang Liu, Tao Wang, Zhicong Yang et al.     This study identified the possible threshold to predict dengue fever (DF) outbreaks using Baidu Search Index (BSI). Time-series classification and regression tree models based on …             Five key attributes can increase marine protected areas performance for small-scale fisheries management ▶     Antonio Di Franco, Pierre Thiriet, Giuseppe Di Carlo et al.     Marine protected areas (MPAs) have largely proven to be effective tools for conserving marine ecosystem, while socio-economic benefits generated by MPAs to fisheries are still …             Protonation enhancement by dichloromethane doping in low-pressure photoionization ▶     Jinian Shu, Yao Zou, Ce Xu et al.     Doping has been used to enhance the ionization efficiency of analytes in atmospheric pressure photoionization, which is based on charge exchange. Compounds with excellent …             Potential and optimization of two-phase anaerobic digestion of oil refinery waste activated sludge and microbial community study ▶     Qinghong Wang, Ying Liang, Peng Zhao et al.     Oil refinery waste activated sludge produced from oil wastewater biological treatment is a major industrial sludge. Two-phase anaerobic digestion of oil refinery waste activated …             Pore-scale dynamics of enzyme adsorption, swelling and reactive dissolution determine sugar yield in hemicellulose hydrolysis for biofuel production ▶     Sajal Kanti Dutta, Saikat Chakraborty     Hemicelluloses are the earth’s second most abundant structural polymers, found in lignocellulosic biomass. Efficient enzymatic depolymerization of xylans by cleaving their …             Seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) seedlings in a high-CO2 world: from physiology to herbivory ▶     Gema Hernán, Laura Ramajo, Lorena Basso et al.     Under future increased CO2 concentrations, seagrasses are predicted to perform better as a result of increased photosynthesis, but the effects in carbon balance and growth are …             Late Oligocene–Early Miocene magnetochronology of the mammalian faunas in the Lanzhou Basin–environmental changes in the NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau ▶     Peng Zhang, Hong Ao, Mark J. Dekkers et al.     A large number of terrestrial mammalian fossils were reported in the well-exposed Paleogene and Neogene fluvio-lacustrine strata in Western China. Their accurate ages are crucial …             Pacific Ocean decadal forcing of long-term changes in the western Pacific subtropical high ▶     Shinji Matsumura, Takeshi Horinouchi     The western Pacific subtropical high (WPSH) has a significant effect on droughts, heat waves, and tropical cyclone tracks over East Asia and the northwest Pacific. The WPSH has …             Gap Shape Classification using Landscape Indices and Multivariate Statistics ▶     Chih-Da Wu, Chi-Chuan Cheng, Che-Chang Chang et al.     This study proposed a novel methodology to classify the shape of gaps using landscape indices and multivariate statistics. Patch-level indices were used to collect the qualified …             Very rapid long-distance sea crossing by a migratory bird ▶     José A. Alves, Maria P. Dias, Verónica Méndez et al.     Landbirds undertaking within-continent migrations have the possibility to stop en route, but most long-distance migrants must also undertake large non-stop sea crossings, the …             Coupling template nanocasting and self-activation for fabrication of nanoporous carbon ▶     Lingjun Kong, Mingxiang Liu, Zenghui Diao et al.     Hierarchical nanoporous carbon (NPC) with great surface area and developed pore size distribution has been intently concerned. Herein, we report a facile method coupling template …             Post-perovskite Transition in Anti-structure ▶     Bosen Wang, Kenya Ohgushi     The discovery of the post-perovskite transition, which is the structural transition from the perovskite to post-perovskite structure in MgSiO3 under pressure, has aroused great …             Groundwater helium anomaly reflects strain change during the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake in Southwest Japan ▶     Yuji Sano, Naoto Takahata, Takanori Kagoshima et al.     Geochemical monitoring of groundwater and soil gas emission pointed out precursor and/or coseismic anomalies of noble gases associated with earthquakes, but there was lack of …             Stepwise onset of the Icehouse world and its impact on Oligo-Miocene Central Asian mammals ▶     Mathias Harzhauser, Gudrun Daxner-Höck, Paloma López-Guerrero et al.     Central Asia is a key area to study the impact of Cenozoic climate cooling on continental ecosystems. One of the best places to search for rather continuous paleontological …             Associations of blood lead levels with reproductive hormone levels in men and postmenopausal women: Results from the SPECT-China Study ▶     Chi Chen, Ningjian Wang, Hualing Zhai et al.     We examined whether blood lead levels (BLLs) were associated with reproductive hormone levels in a cross-sectional study using data from the SPECT-China study. 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