Scientific Reports Earth Sciences Table of Contents e-alert: June 2012

01 June 2012      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports             The Arab world has a rich history of scientific breakthroughs. Ensure you're part of the scientific and medical community gaining access to a regularly updated list of science jobs and local events in the Middle East. www.nature.com/nmiddleeast/ Follow us: Facebook, Twitter, & Google +               Earth & Environmental Sciences               The total amounts of radioactively contaminated materials in forests in Fukushima, Japan ▶     Shoji Hashimoto, Shin Ugawa, Kazuki Nanko et al.     There has been leakage of radioactive materials from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. A heavily contaminated area (≥ 134, 137Cs 1000 kBq m−2) has been identified in the …             Nitrogen-limited mangrove ecosystems conserve N through dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium ▶     Sheryl Oliveira Fernandes, Patricia C. Bonin, Valérie D. Michotey et al.     Earlier observations in mangrove sediments of Goa, India have shown denitrification to be a major pathway for N loss. However, percentage of total nitrate transformed through …             A short-term in situ CO2 enrichment experiment on Heron Island (GBR) ▶     David I. Kline, Lida Teneva, Kenneth Schneider et al.     Ocean acidification poses multiple challenges for coral reefs on molecular to ecological scales, yet previous experimental studies of the impact of projected CO2 concentrations …             Anatomy of a microearthquake sequence on an active normal fault ▶     T. A. Stabile, C. Satriano, A. Orefice et al.     The analysis of similar earthquakes, such as events in a seismic sequence, is an effective tool with which to monitor and study source processes and to understand the mechanical …             Microcrystals coating the wing membranes of a living insect (Psocoptera: Psyllipsocidae) from a Brazilian cave ▶     Charles Lienhard, Rodrigo L. Ferreira, Edwin Gnos et al.     Two specimens of Psyllipsocus yucatan with black wings were found with normal individuals of this species on guano piles produced by the common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus. …             Thermal Controls on the Asian Summer Monsoon ▶     Guoxiong Wu, Yimin Liu, Bian He et al.     The Asian summer monsoon affects more than sixty percent of the world's population; understanding its controlling factors is becoming increasingly important due to the expanding …             Natural Cork Agglomerate Employed as an Environmentally Friendly Solution for Quiet Sandwich Composites ▶     James Sargianis, Hyung-ick Kim, Jonghwan Suhr     Carbon fiber-synthetic foam core sandwich composites are widely used for many structural applications due to their superior mechanical performance and low weight. Unfortunately …             Structure and Properties of Dense Silica Glass ▶     Min Wu, Yunfeng Liang, Jian-Zhong Jiang et al.     The O K-edge x-ray Raman scattering (XRS), Brillouin scattering and diffraction studies on silica glass at high pressure have been elucidated in a unified manner using model …             Universal features of correlated bursty behaviour ▶     Márton Karsai, Kimmo Kaski, Albert-László Barabási et al.     Inhomogeneous temporal processes, like those appearing in human communications, neuron spike trains, and seismic signals, consist of high-activity bursty intervals alternating …                         Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. 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