Scientific Reports Earth Sciences Table of Contents e-alert: February 2013

01 February 2013      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports                 Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. Submit your manuscript now.                 Earth & Environmental Sciences               Interdependent network reciprocity in evolutionary games ▶     Zhen Wang, Attila Szolnoki, Matjaž Perc     Besides the structure of interactions within networks, also the interactions between networks are of the outmost importance. We therefore study the outcome of the public goods …             Don Juan Pond, Antarctica: Near-surface CaCl2-brine feeding Earth's most saline lake and implications for Mars ▶     James L. Dickson, James W. Head, Joseph S. Levy et al.     The discovery on Mars of recurring slope lineae (RSL), thought to represent seasonal brines, has sparked interest in analogous environments on Earth. We report on new studies of …             Global Multi-Level Analysis of the ‘Scientific Food Web' ▶     Amin Mazloumian, Dirk Helbing, Sergi Lozano et al.     We introduce a network-based index analyzing excess scientific production and consumption to perform a comprehensive global analysis of scholarly knowledge production and …             Systemic delay propagation in the US airport network ▶     Pablo Fleurquin, José J. Ramasco, Victor M. Eguiluz     Technologically driven transport systems are characterized by a networked structure connecting operation centers and by a dynamics ruled by pre-established schedules. Schedules …             The natural ocean acidification and fertilization event caused by the submarine eruption of El Hierro ▶     J. M. Santana-Casiano, M. González-Dávila, E. Fraile-Nuez et al.     The shallow submarine eruption which took place in October 10th 2011, 1.8 km south of the island of El Hierro (Canary Islands) allowed the study of the abrupt changes in the …             Linking mantle upwelling with the lithosphere decent and the Japan Sea evolution: a hypothesis ▶     Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Satoru Honda, Igor Tsepelev     Recent seismic tomography studies image a low velocity zone (interpreted as a high temperature anomaly) in the mantle beneath the subducting Pacific plate near the Japanese …             Terrestrial pesticide exposure of amphibians: An underestimated cause of global decline? ▶     Carsten A. Brühl, Thomas Schmidt, Silvia Pieper et al.     Amphibians, a class of animals in global decline, are present in agricultural landscapes characterized by agrochemical inputs. Effects of pesticides on terrestrial life stages of …             Mass production of chemicals from biomass-derived oil by directly atmospheric distillation coupled with co-pyrolysis ▶     Xue-Song Zhang, Guang-Xi Yang, Hong Jiang et al.     Production of renewable commodity chemicals from bio-oil derived from fast pyrolysis of biomass has received considerable interests, but hindered by the presence of innumerable …             A successful real-time forecast of the 2010–11 La Niña event ▶     Rong-Hua Zhang, Fei Zheng, Jiang Zhu et al.     During 2010–11, a La Niña condition prevailed in the tropical Pacific. An intermediate coupled model (ICM) is used to demonstrate a real-time forecast of sea surface temperature …             Major coastal impact induced by a 1000-year storm event ▶     Mikkel Fruergaard, Thorbjørn J. Andersen, Peter N. Johannessen et al.     Extreme storms and storm surges may induce major changes along sandy barrier coastlines, potentially causing substantial environmental and economic damage. We show that the most …             Microstructural fingerprints of phase transitions in shock-loaded iron ▶     S. J. Wang, M. L. Sui, Y. T. Chen et al.     The complex structural transformation in crystals under static pressure or shock loading has been a subject of long-standing interest to materials scientists and physicists. The …             A sclerite-bearing stem group entoproct from the early Cambrian and its implications ▶     Zhifei Zhang, Lars E. Holmer, Christian B. Skovsted et al.     The Lophotrochozoa includes disparate tentacle-bearing sessile protostome animals, which apparently appeared in the Cambrian explosion, but lack an uncontested fossil record. Here …             Pan-Arctic distributions of continental runoff in the Arctic Ocean ▶     Cédric G. Fichot, Karl Kaiser, Stanford B. Hooker et al.     Continental runoff is a major source of freshwater, nutrients and terrigenous material to the Arctic Ocean. As such, it influences water column stratification, light attenuation, …             Cholera in Haiti: Reproductive numbers and vaccination coverage estimates ▶     Zindoga Mukandavire, David L. Smith, J. Glenn Morris Jr     Cholera reappeared in Haiti in October, 2010 after decades of absence. Cases were first detected in Artibonite region and in the ensuing months the disease spread to every …             Water pollutant fingerprinting tracks recent industrial transfer from coastal to inland China: A case study ▶     Weiwei Zheng, Xia Wang, Dajun Tian et al.     In recent years, China’s developed regions have transferred industries to undeveloped regions. 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