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20 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               A Large Ornithurine Bird (Tingmiatornis arctica) from the Turonian High Arctic: Climatic and Evolutionary Implications ▶     Richard K. Bono, Julia Clarke, John A. Tarduno et al.     Bird fossils from Turonian (ca. 90 Ma) sediments of Axel Heiberg Island (High Canadian Arctic) are among the earliest North American records. The morphology of a large …             Nucleation of mercury sulfide by dealkylation ▶     Mironel Enescu, Kathryn L. Nagy, Alain Manceau     Metal sulfide minerals are assumed to form naturally at ambient conditions via reaction of a metallic element with (poly)sulfide ions, usually produced by microbes in …             Periodic fluctuation of reference evapotranspiration during the past five decades: Does Evaporation Paradox really exist in China? ▶     Wanqiu Xing, Weiguang Wang, Quanxi Shao et al.     Evidence that the pan evaporation or reference evapotranspiration (ET0) as the indicator of atmospheric evaporation capability have decreased along with the continuous increase …             Water soluble organic aerosols in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA: composition, sources and optical properties ▶     Mingjie Xie, Natalie Mladenov, Mark W. Williams et al.     Atmospheric aerosols have been shown to be an important input of organic carbon and nutrients to alpine watersheds and influence biogeochemical processes in these remote …             Implications for management and conservation of the population genetic structure of the wedge clam Donax trunculus across two biogeographic boundaries ▶     Amandine D. Marie, Christophe Lejeusne, Evgenia Karapatsiou et al.     In a resource management perspective, the understanding of the relative influence of the physical factors on species connectivity remains a major challenge and is also of great …             Anode potential influences the structure and function of anodic electrode and electrolyte-associated microbiomes ▶     Paul G. Dennis, Bernardino Virdis, Inka Vanwonterghem et al.     Three bioelectrochemical systems were operated with set anode potentials of +300 mV, +550 mV and +800 mV vs. Standard Hydrogen Electrode (SHE) to test the hypothesis that anode …             Redox properties of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) from electroactive bacteria ▶     Shan-Wei Li, Guo-Ping Sheng, Yuan-Yuan Cheng et al.     Although the capacity for electroactive bacteria to convert environmental metallic minerals and organic pollutants is well known, the role of the redox properties of microbial …             Reversible Self-Actuated Thermo-Responsive Pore Membrane ▶     Younggeun Park, Maria Paz Gutierrez, Luke P. Lee     Smart membranes, which can selectively control the transfer of light, air, humidity and temperature, are important to achieve indoor climate regulation. Even though reversible …             Possible Source Populations of the White-backed Planthopper in the Greater Mekong Subregion Revealed by Mitochondrial DNA Analysis ▶     Xiang-yong Li, Dong Chu, Yan-qiong Yin et al.     The white-backed planthopper, Sogatella furcifera (Horváth) (Hemiptera: Delphacidae), is a serious pest of rice in Asia. However, little is known regarding the migration of this …             Production of fluorescent dissolved organic matter in Arctic Ocean sediments ▶     Meilian Chen, Ji-Hoon Kim, Seung-Il Nam et al.     Little is known about the production of fluorescent dissolved organic matter (FDOM) in the anoxic oceanic sediments. In this study, sediment pore waters were sampled from four …             Ionizing radiation from Chernobyl affects development of wild carrot plants ▶     Zbyszek Boratyński, Javi Miranda Arias, Cristina Garcia et al.     Radioactivity released from disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima is a global hazard and a threat to exposed biota. To minimize the deleterious effects of stressors organisms …             A Jurassic wood providing insights into the earliest step in Ginkgo wood evolution ▶     Zikun Jiang, Yongdong Wang, Marc Philippe et al.     The fossil record of Ginkgo leaf and reproductive organs has been well dated to the Mid-Jurassic (170 Myr). However, the fossil wood record that can safely be assigned to …             Declining Prevalence of Disease Vectors Under Climate Change ▶     Luis E. Escobar, Daniel Romero-Alvarez, Renato Leon et al.     More than half of the world population is at risk of vector-borne diseases including dengue fever, chikungunya, zika, yellow fever, leishmaniasis, chagas disease, and malaria, …             The influence of ionic strength on carbonate-based spectroscopic barometry for aqueous fluids: an in-situ Raman study on Na2CO3-NaCl solutions ▶     Jia Wu, Shixia Wang, Haifei Zheng     The Raman wavenumber of the symmetric stretching vibration of carbonate ion (ν1-CO32−) was measured in three aqueous solutions containing 2.0 mol·L−1 Na2CO3 and 0.20, 0.42, or …             Analysis of High-altitude Syndrome and the Underlying Gene Polymorphisms Associated with Acute Mountain Sickness after a Rapid Ascent to High-altitude ▶     Jie Yu, Ying Zeng, Guozhu Chen et al.     To investigated the objective indicators and potential genotypes for acute mountain sickness (AMS). 176 male subjects were evaluated for symptoms scores and physiological …             Shared and unique patterns of phenotypic diversification along a stream gradient in two congeneric species ▶     Jonas Jourdan, Sarah T. Krause, V. Max Lazar et al.     Stream ecosystems show gradual variation of various selection factors, which can result in a zonation of species distributions and gradient evolution of morphological and …             Associative nitrogen fixation in nodules of the conifer Lepidothamnus fonkii (Podocarpaceae) inhabiting ombrotrophic bogs in southern Patagonia ▶     Werner Borken, Marcus A. Horn, Stefan Geimer et al.     Biological N2 fixation (BNF) in the rhizosphere of Podocarpaceae is currently attributed to unspecific diazotrophs with negligible impact on N acquisition. Here, we report …             Forest type effects on the retention of radiocesium in organic layers of forest ecosystems affected by the Fukushima nuclear accident ▶     Jun Koarashi, Mariko Atarashi-Andoh, Takeshi Matsunaga et al.     The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster caused serious radiocesium (137Cs) contamination of forest ecosystems over a wide area. Forest-floor organic layers play a key …             Spring maize yield, soil water use and water use efficiency under plastic film and straw mulches in the Loess Plateau ▶     Wen Lin, Wenzhao Liu, Qingwu Xue     To compare the soil water balance, yield and water use efficiency (WUE) of spring maize under different mulching types in the Loess Plateau, a 7-year field experiment was …             Chemical formation of hybrid di-nitrogen calls fungal codenitrification into question ▶     Rebecca L. Phillips, Bongkeun Song, Andrew M. S. McMillan et al.     Removal of excess nitrogen (N) can best be achieved through denitrification processes that transform N in water and terrestrial ecosystems to di-nitrogen (N2) gas. The greenhouse …             The December 2015 North Pole Warming Event and the Increasing Occurrence of Such Events ▶     G. W. K. Moore     In late December 2015, widespread media interest revolved around forecasts that the surface air temperature at the North Pole would rise above freezing. Although there has been …             Detecting sulphate aerosol geoengineering with different methods ▶     Y. T. Eunice Lo, Andrew J. Charlton-Perez, Fraser C. Lott et al.     Sulphate aerosol injection has been widely discussed as a possible way to engineer future climate. Monitoring it would require detecting its effects amidst internal variability …             Real-time detection of dielectric anisotropy or isotropy in unconventional oil-gas reservoir rocks supported by the oblique-incidence reflectivity difference technique ▶     Honglei Zhan, Jin Wang, Kun Zhao et al.     Current geological extraction theory and techniques are very limited to adequately characterize the unconventional oil-gas reservoirs because of the considerable complexity of …             Condensed-matter equation of states covering a wide region of pressure studied experimentally ▶     Elijah E. Gordon, Jürgen Köhler, Myung-Hwan Whangbo     The relationships among the pressure P, volume V, and temperature T of solid-state materials are described by their equations of state (EOSs), which are often derived from the …             Rethinking the process of detrainment: jets in obstructed natural flows ▶     Michele Mossa, Francesca De Serio     A thorough understanding of the mixing and diffusion of turbulent jets released in porous obstructions is still lacking in literature. This issue is undoubtedly of interest …             Adsorption of phosphate in water using one-step synthesized zirconium-loaded reduced graphene oxide ▶     Xin Luo, Xiurong Wang, Shaopan Bao et al.     In this account, a one-step green hydrothermal method for zirconium-loaded reduced graphene oxide (RGO-Zr) adsorbent was developed in pure water. It is based on the formation of …             Pollen and spores as biological recorders of past ultraviolet irradiance ▶     Phillip E. Jardine, Wesley T. Fraser, Barry H. Lomax et al.     Solar ultraviolet (UV) irradiance is a key driver of climatic and biotic change. Ultraviolet irradiance modulates stratospheric warming and ozone production, and influences the …             Increased levels of the oxidative stress biomarker 8-iso-prostaglandin F2α in wastewater associated with tobacco use ▶     Yeonsuk Ryu, Emma Gracia-Lor, Richard Bade et al.     Wastewater analysis has been demonstrated to be a complementary approach for assessing the overall patterns of drug use by a population while the full potential of …             Vocal sequences suppress spiking in the bat auditory cortex while evoking concomitant steady-state local field potentials ▶     Julio C. Hechavarría, M. Jerome Beetz, Silvio Macias et al.     The mechanisms by which the mammalian brain copes with information from natural vocalization streams remain poorly understood. This article shows that in highly vocal animals, …             Ecology and biogeography of megafauna and macrofauna at the first known deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge ▶     J. T. Copley, L. Marsh, A. G. Glover et al.     The Southwest Indian Ridge is the longest section of very slow to ultraslow-spreading seafloor in the global mid-ocean ridge system, but the biogeography and ecology of its …             Simulated effects of nitrogen saturation on the global carbon budget using the IBIS model ▶     Xuehe Lu, Hong Jiang, Jinxun Liu et al.     Over the past 100 years, human activity has greatly changed the rate of atmospheric N (nitrogen) deposition in terrestrial ecosystems, resulting in N saturation in some regions …             Restoration of clipped seismic waveforms using projection onto convex sets method ▶     Jinhai Zhang, Jinlai Hao, Xu Zhao et al.     The seismic waveforms would be clipped when the amplitude exceeds the upper-limit dynamic range of seismometer. Clipped waveforms are typically assumed not useful and seldom used …             Spatial distribution of planktonic bacterial and archaeal communities in the upper section of the tidal reach in Yangtze River ▶     Limin Fan, Chao Song, Shunlong Meng et al.     Bacterioplankton and archaeaplankton communities play key roles in the biogeochemical processes of water, and they may be affected by many factors. In this study, we used …             Occurrence investigation of perfluorinated compounds in surface water from East Lake (Wuhan, China) upon rapid and selective magnetic solid-phase extraction ▶     Yusun Zhou, Yun Tao, Huarong Li et al.     Using a novel magnetic nanocomposite as adsorbent, a convenient and effective magnetic solid-phase extraction (MSPE) procedure was established for selective separation and …             The impact of zinc oxide nanoparticles on the bacterial microbiome of activated sludge systems ▶     K. Meli, I. Kamika, J. Keshri et al.     The expected growth in nanomaterial applications could result in increased amounts of nanoparticles entering municipal sewer systems, eventually ending up in wastewater treatment …             Soil aggregation and aggregating agents as affected by long term contrasting management of an Anthrosol ▶     Shulan Zhang, Renjie Wang, Xueyun Yang et al.     Soil aggregation was studied in a 21-year experiment conducted on an Anthrosol. The soil management regimes consisted of cropland abandonment, bare fallow without vegetation and …             Effects of light attenuation on the sponge holobiont- implications for dredging management ▶     Mari-Carmen Pineda, Brian Strehlow, Alan Duckworth et al.     Dredging and natural sediment resuspension events can cause high levels of turbidity, reducing the amount of light available for photosynthetic benthic biota. To determine how …             The key role of meteorites in the formation of relevant prebiotic molecules in a formamide/water environment ▶     Luca Rotelli, Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Carles E. Moyano-Cambero et al.     We show that carbonaceous chondrite meteorites actively and selectively catalyze the formation of relevant prebiotic molecules from formamide in aqueous media. Specific catalytic …             Effect of acute pesticide exposure on bee spatial working memory using an analogue of the radial-arm maze ▶     Elizabeth E. W. Samuelson, Zachary P. Chen-Wishart, Richard J. Gill et al.     Pesticides, including neonicotinoids, typically target pest insects by being neurotoxic. Inadvertent exposure to foraging insect pollinators is usually sub-lethal, but may affect …             The biogeography of soil archaeal communities on the eastern Tibetan Plateau ▶     Yu Shi, Jonathan M. Adams, Yingying Ni et al.     The biogeographical distribution of soil bacterial communities has been widely investigated. However, there has been little study of the biogeography of soil archaeal communities …             Aniline-containing guests recognized by α,α’,δ,δ’-tetramethyl-cucurbit[6]uril host ▶     Rui-Lian Lin, Guo-Sheng Fang, Wen-Qi Sun et al.     The host−guest complexation of symmetrical α,α’,δ,δ’-tetramethyl-cucurbit[6]uril (TMeQ[6]) and cucurbit[7]uril (Q[7]) with a series of aniline-containing guests has been …             Widespread episodic thiamine deficiency in Northern Hemisphere wildlife ▶     Lennart Balk, Per-Åke Hägerroth, Hanna Gustavsson et al.     Many wildlife populations are declining at rates higher than can be explained by known threats to biodiversity. Recently, thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency has emerged as a …             Atmospheric Deposition-Carried Zn and Cd from a Zinc Smelter and Their Effects on Soil Microflora as Revealed by 16S rDNA ▶     Feng Shen, Yanxia Li, Min Zhang et al.     In this study, we investigated the influence of heavy metals (HM) on total soil bacterial population and its diversity pattern from 10 km distance of a Zinc smelter in Feng …                 • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoc fellow     Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell Medicine            Postdoctoral Scientist     John Innes Centre (JIC)            PhD student (f / m)     German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)            Postdoctoral Fellow     University of Bergen            Post-Doctoral Research Fellow     Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard Medical School            Postdoctoral Associate     University of Pittsburgh            Two Junior Group Leader Positions     Centre for Genomic Regulation            Group Leader in Cancer Biology     Wellcome Trust / Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute - University of Cambridge            Senior Research Associate in Statistical Modelling     University of Bristol            PhD Studentships     Ecole Polytechnique          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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