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10 January 2017      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               npj Climate and Atmospheric Science: open for submissions An open access, online-only journal providing researchers, policy makers and the public with the latest research on weather and climate, publishing high-quality papers that focus on topics including climate dynamics, climate variability, weather and climate prediction, climate change, weather extremes, atmospheric composition including aerosols, the hydrological cycle and atmosphere-ocean interactions.   Find out more >>                 Earth & Environmental Sciences               Accessing the impacts of bamboo expansion on NPP and N cycling in evergreen broadleaved forest in subtropical China ▶     Qing-ni Song, Hui Lu, Jun Liu et al.     Bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) expansion into adjacent forests is a widespread phenomenon in subtropical regions, and it has greatly changed the dominance hierarchy from trees …             Spatial competition dynamics between reef corals under ocean acidification ▶     Rael Horwitz, Mia O. Hoogenboom, Maoz Fine     Climate change, including ocean acidification (OA), represents a major threat to coral-reef ecosystems. Although previous experiments have shown that OA can negatively affect the …             Flip flop of Day-night and Summer-Winter Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity in India ▶     Hiteshri Shastri, Beas Barik, Subimal Ghosh et al.     The difference in land surface temperature (LST) between an urban region and its nearby non–urban region, known as surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII), is usually …             Effects of plant species richness on 13C assimilate partitioning in artificial grasslands of different established ages ▶     Longhua Xu, Buqing Yao, Wenying Wang et al.     Artificial grasslands play a role in carbon storage on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. The artificial grasslands exhibit decreased proportions of graminate and increased species …             Quantifying influences of physiographic factors on temperate dryland vegetation, Northwest China ▶     Ziqiang Du, Xiaoyu Zhang, Xiaoming Xu et al.     Variability in satellite measurements of terrestrial greenness in drylands is widely observed in land surface processes and global change studies. Yet the underlying causes …             Residential exposure to chlorinated hydrocarbons from groundwater contamination and the impairment of renal function-An ecological study ▶     Hui-Ming Chen, Ming-Tsang Wu     Groundwater pollution from the petrochemical industry causes serious deterioration of soil and groundwater quality and impacts on human health worldwide. However, few studies …             C. elegans-on-a-chip for in situ and in vivo Ag nanoparticles’ uptake and toxicity assay ▶     Jin Ho Kim, Seung Hwan Lee, Yun Jeong Cha et al.     Nanomaterials are extensively used in consumer products and medical applications, but little is known about their environmental and biological toxicities. Moreover, the toxicity …             Polydatin protects the respiratory system from PM2.5 exposure ▶     Xiao-Dan Yan, Qi-Ming Wang, Cai Tie et al.     Atmospheric particle is one of the risk factors for respiratory disease; however, their injury mechanisms are poorly understood, and prevention methods are highly desirable. We …             Long-term exposure to a ‘safe’ dose of bisphenol A reduced protein acetylation in adult rat testes ▶     Zhuo Chen, Xuezhi Zuo, Dongliang He et al.     Bisphenol A (BPA), a typical environmental endocrine-disrupting chemical, induces epigenetic inheritance. Whether histone acetylation plays a role in these effects of BPA is …             Theoretical insight into OH- and Cl-initiated oxidation of CF3OCH(CF3)2 and CF3OCF2CF2H & fate of CF3OC(X•)(CF3)2 and CF3OCF2CF2X• radicals (X=O, O2) ▶     Feng-Yang Bai, Yuan Ma, Shuang Lv et al.     In this study, the mechanistic and kinetic analysis for reactions of CF3OCH(CF3)2 and CF3OCF2CF2H with OH radicals and Cl atoms have been performed at the CCSD(T)//B3LYP/6-311+…             Sea-level rise induced amplification of coastal protection design heights ▶     Arne Arns, Sönke Dangendorf , Jürgen Jensen et al.     Coastal protection design heights typically consider the superimposed effects of tides, surges, waves, and relative sea-level rise (SLR), neglecting non-linear feedbacks between …             A Pilot-scale Benthic Microbial Electrochemical System (BMES) for Enhanced Organic Removal in Sediment Restoration ▶     Henan Li, Yan Tian, Youpeng Qu et al.     A benthic microbial electrochemical systems (BMES) of 195 L (120 cm long, 25 cm wide and 65 cm height) was constructed for sediment organic removal. Sediment from a natural river …             Enhancement of mosquito trapping efficiency by using pulse width modulated light emitting diodes ▶     Yu-Nan Liu, Yu-Jen Liu, Yi-Chian Chen et al.     In this study, a light-driving bug zapper is presented for well controlling the diseases brought by insects, such as mosquitoes. In order to have the device efficient to trap the …             An on-chip imaging droplet-sorting system: a real-time shape recognition method to screen target cells in droplets with single cell resolution ▶     Mathias Girault, Hyonchol Kim, Hisayuki Arakawa et al.     A microfluidic on-chip imaging cell sorter has several advantages over conventional cell sorting methods, especially to identify cells with complex morphologies such as clusters. …             Influence of metal-mediated aerosol-phase oxidation on secondary organic aerosol formation from the ozonolysis and OH-oxidation of α-pinene ▶     Biwu Chu, John Liggio, Yongchun Liu et al.     The organic component is the most abundant fraction of atmospheric submicron particles, while the formation mechanisms of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) are not fully …             Synthesis and insecticidal activity of acridone derivatives to Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus larvae and non-target aquatic species ▶     Selvaraj Mohana Roopan, Annadurai Bharathi, Naif Abdullah Al-Dhabi et al.     A serious Mosquito borne yellow fever is one of the grave diseases which affect the major population. Since there is no specific treatment for yellow fever, there is a necessity …             Cellulose Nanofibril Based-Aerogel Microreactors: A High Efficiency and Easy Recoverable W/O/W Membrane Separation System ▶     Fang Zhang, Hao Ren, Jing Dou et al.     Hereby we report a novel cellulose nanofirbril aerogel-based W/O/W microreactor system that can be used for fast and high efficient molecule or ions extraction and separation. …             Antarctic ice sheet discharge driven by atmosphere-ocean feedbacks at the Last Glacial Termination ▶     C. J. Fogwill, C. S. M. Turney, N. R. Golledge et al.     Reconstructing the dynamic response of the Antarctic ice sheets to warming during the Last Glacial Termination (LGT; 18,000–11,650 yrs ago) allows us to disentangle ice-climate …             Experimental investigation of the hydraulic and heat-transfer properties of artificially fractured granite ▶     Jin Luo, Yongqiang Zhu, Qinghai Guo et al.     In this paper, the hydraulic and heat-transfer properties of two sets of artificially fractured granite samples are investigated. First, the morphological information is …             Local Circulation Maintains the Coexistence of Lake-dune Pattern in the Badain Jaran Desert ▶     Kecun Zhang, Diwen Cai, Yinhuan Ao et al.     Previous studies proposed various hypotheses to the formation of the mega-dunes and water recharge of the lakes in the Badain Jaran Desert but left the coexistence of lake-dune …             CO2-induced pH reduction increases physiological toxicity of nano-TiO2 in the mussel Mytilus coruscus ▶     Menghong Hu, Daohui Lin, Yueyong Shang et al.     The increasing usage of nanoparticles has caused their considerable release into the aquatic environment. Meanwhile, anthropogenic CO2 emissions have caused a reduction of …             Pliocene oceanic seaways and global climate ▶     Cyrus Karas, Dirk Nürnberg, André Bahr et al.     Tectonically induced changes in oceanic seaways had profound effects on global and regional climate during the Late Neogene. The constriction of the Central American Seaway …             Thermal separation of soil particles from thermal conductivity measurement under various air pressures ▶     Sen Lu, Tusheng Ren, Yili Lu et al.     The thermal conductivity of dry soils is related closely to air pressure and the contact areas between solid particles. In this study, the thermal conductivity of two-phase soil …             Improving rice production sustainability by reducing water demand and greenhouse gas emissions with biodegradable films ▶     Zhisheng Yao, Xunhua Zheng, Chunyan Liu et al.     In China, rice production is facing unprecedented challenges, including the increasing demand, looming water crisis and on-going climate change. Thus, producing more rice at …             The emergent role of small-bodied herbivores in pre-empting phase shifts on degraded coral reefs ▶     Caitlin D. Kuempel, Andrew H. Altieri     Natural and anthropogenic stressors can cause phase shifts from coral-dominated to algal-dominated states. In the Caribbean, over-fishing of large herbivorous fish and disease …             Swimming and feeding of mixotrophic biflagellates ▶     Julia Dölger, Lasse Tor Nielsen, Thomas Kiørboe et al.     Many unicellular flagellates are mixotrophic and access resources through both photosynthesis and prey capture. Their fitness depends on those processes as well as on swimming …             Quorum-quenching limits quorum-sensing exploitation by signal-negative invaders ▶     Mélanie Tannières, Julien Lang, Claudie Barnier et al.     Some bacteria produce and perceive quorum-sensing (QS) signals that coordinate several behaviours, including the costly processes that are exoenzyme production and plasmid …             Model fit versus biological relevance: Evaluating photosynthesis-temperature models for three tropical seagrass species ▶     Matthew P. Adams, Catherine J. Collier, Sven Uthicke et al.     When several models can describe a biological process, the equation that best fits the data is typically considered the best. However, models are most useful when they also …             Temporal variation of cesium isotope concentrations and atom ratios in zooplankton in the Pacific off the east coast of Japan ▶     Takahito Ikenoue, Hyoe Takata, Masashi Kusakabe et al.     After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011, concentrations of cesium isotopes (133Cs, 134Cs, and 137Cs) were measured in zooplankton collected in the …             Major cause of unprecedented Arctic warming in January 2016: Critical role of an Atlantic windstorm ▶     Baek-Min Kim, Ja-Young Hong, Sang-Yoon Jun et al.     In January 2016, the Arctic experienced an extremely anomalous warming event after an extraordinary increase in air temperature at the end of 2015. During this event, a strong …             pH is the primary determinant of the bacterial community structure in agricultural soils impacted by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pollution ▶     Yucheng Wu, Jun Zeng, Qinghe Zhu et al.     Acidification and pollution are two major threats to agricultural ecosystems; however, microbial community responses to co-existed soil acidification and pollution remain less …             Metabolic profiling of root exudates from two ecotypes of Sedum alfredii treated with Pb based on GC-MS ▶     Qing Luo, Shiyu Wang, Li-na Sun et al.     Phytoremediation is an effective method to remediate Pb-contaminated soils and root exudates play an important role in this process. Based on gas chromatography-mass spectrometry …             Evaluation of HDPE and LDPE degradation by fungus, implemented by statistical optimization ▶     Nupur Ojha, Neha Pradhan, Surjit Singh et al.     Plastic in any form is a nuisance to the well-being of the environment. The ‘pestilence’ caused by it is mainly due to its non-degradable nature. With the industrial boom and the …             Analysis of the Global Warming Potential of Biogenic CO2 Emission in Life Cycle Assessments ▶     Weiguo Liu, Zhonghui Zhang, Xinfeng Xie et al.     Biomass is generally believed to be carbon neutral. However, recent studies have challenged the carbon neutrality hypothesis by introducing metric indicators to assess the global …             Effect of particle volume fraction on the settling velocity of volcanic ash particles: insights from joint experimental and numerical simulations ▶     Elisabetta Del Bello, Jacopo Taddeucci, Mattia de’ Michieli Vitturi et al.     Most of the current ash transport and dispersion models neglect particle-fluid (two-way) and particle-fluid plus particle-particle (four-way) reciprocal interactions during …             Evidence for a missing source of efficient ice nuclei ▶     Rui Du, Pengrui Du, Zedong Lu et al.     It has been known for several decades that some bioaerosols, such as ice-nucleation-active (INA) bacteria, especially Pseudomonas syringae strains, may play a critical potential …             Complex Roles of Solution Chemistry on Graphene Oxide Coagulation onto Titanium Dioxide: Batch Experiments, Spectroscopy Analysis and Theoretical Calculation ▶     Shujun Yu, Xiangxue Wang, Rui Zhang et al.     Although graphene oxide (GO) has been used in multidisciplinary areas due to its excellent physicochemical properties, its environmental behavior and fate are still largely …             Spatio-temporal patterns of stream methane and carbon dioxide emissions in a hemiboreal catchment in Southwest Sweden ▶     Sivakiruthika Natchimuthu, Marcus B. Wallin, Leif Klemedtsson et al.     Global stream and river greenhouse gas emissions seem to be as large as the oceanic C uptake. However, stream and river emissions are uncertain until both spatial and temporal …             Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest risk attributable to temperature in Japan ▶     Daisuke Onozuka, Akihito Hagihara     Several studies have estimated the associations between extreme temperatures and mortality and morbidity; however, few have investigated the attributable fraction for a wide …             Nutrition affects insect susceptibility to Bt toxins ▶     Carrie A. Deans, Spencer T. Behmer, Ashley E. Tessnow et al.     Pesticide resistance represents a major challenge to global food production. 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