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07 July 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Deducing acidification rates based on short-term time series ▶     Hon-Kit Lui, Chen-Tung Arthur Chen     We show that, statistically, the simple linear regression (SLR)-determined rate of temporal change in seawater pH (βpH), the so-called acidification rate, can be expressed as a …             Motif analysis in directed ordered networks and applications to food webs ▶     Pavel V. Paulau, Christoph Feenders, Bernd Blasius     The analysis of small recurrent substructures, so called network motifs, has become a standard tool of complex network science to unveil the design principles underlying the …             Dominant and novel clades of Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis in 18 globally distributed full-scale wastewater treatment plants ▶     Yanping Mao, David W. Graham, Hideyuki Tamaki et al.     Here we employed quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) assays for polyphosphate kinase 1 (ppk1) and 16S rRNA genes to assess relative abundances of dominant clades of Candidatus …             Improved grazing management may increase soil carbon sequestration in temperate steppe ▶     Wenqing Chen, Ding Huang, Nan Liu et al.     Different grazing strategies impact grassland plant production and may also regulate the soil carbon formation. For a site in semiarid temperate steppe, we studied the effect of …             Recent Reversal of the Upper-Tropospheric Temperature Trend and its Role in Intensifying the East Asian Summer Monsoon ▶     Siyao Zhao, Jian Li, Rucong Yu et al.     At the beginning of the 21st century, the July and August (JA) mean upper-tropospheric temperature over East Asia shows a significant increasing trend, contrary to the decreasing …             Erratum: Near-shore Antarctic pH variability has implications for the design of ocean acidification experiments ▶     Lydia Kapsenberg, Amanda L. Kelley, Emily C. Shaw et al.                 Analysis of farmland fragmentation in China Modernization Demonstration Zone since “Reform and Openness”: a case study of South Jiangsu Province ▶     Liang Cheng, Nan Xia, Penghui Jiang et al.     Farmland is a fundamental resource for human survival and development. However, farmland fragmentation has become a serious problem, causing ecological damage and low crop …             Colonization by fragments of the submerged macrophyte Myriophyllum spicatum under different sediment type and density conditions ▶     Feng Li, Lianlian Zhu, Yonghong Xie et al.     In this paper, the effect of plant density, sediment type, and macrophyte fragment size on the fragment colonization ability of Myriophyllum spicatum was evaluated in an outdoor …             Deciphering the evolution of birdwing butterflies 150 years after Alfred Russel Wallace ▶     Fabien L. Condamine, Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint, Anne-Laure Clamens et al.     One hundred and fifty years after Alfred Wallace studied the geographical variation and species diversity of butterflies in the Indomalayan-Australasian Archipelago, the …             A New Oviraptorid Dinosaur (Dinosauria: Oviraptorosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Southern China and Its Paleobiogeographical Implications ▶     Junchang Lü, Hanyong Pu, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi et al.     The Ganzhou area of Jiangxi Province, southern China is becoming one of the most productive oviraptorosaurian localities in the world. A new oviraptorid dinosaur was unearthed …             Late-glacial elevated dust deposition linked to westerly wind shifts in southern South America ▶     Heleen Vanneste, François De Vleeschouwer, Antonio Martínez-Cortizas et al.     Atmospheric dust loadings play a crucial role in the global climate system. Southern South America is a key dust source, however, dust deposition rates remain poorly quantified …             A simple methodological validation of the gas/particle fractionation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ambient air ▶     Yong-Hyun Kim, Ki-Hyun Kim     The analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in ambient air requires the tedious experimental steps of both sampling and pretreatment (e.g., extraction or clean-up). To …             Characterization of Three Tetrabromobisphenol-S Derivatives in Mollusks from Chinese Bohai Sea: A Strategy for Novel Brominated Contaminants Identification ▶     Ai-feng Liu, Yong Tian, Nuo-ya Yin et al.     Identification of novel brominated contaminants in the environment, especially the derivatives and byproducts of brominated flame retardants (BFRs), has become a wide concern …             Self-organized iron-oxide cementation geometry as an indicator of paleo-flows ▶     Yifeng Wang, Marjorie A. Chan, Enrique Merino     Widespread iron oxide precipitation from groundwater in fine-grained red beds displays various patterns, including nodulation, banding and scallops and fingers. Hematite nodules …             Phenotypic and evolutionary implications of modulating the ERK-MAPK cascade using the dentition as a model ▶     Pauline Marangoni, Cyril Charles, Paul Tafforeau et al.     The question of phenotypic convergence across a signalling pathway has important implications for both developmental and evolutionary biology. 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