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14 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               Atmospheric benzenoid emissions from plants rival those from fossil fuels ▶     P.K. Misztal, C.N. Hewitt, J. Wildt et al.     Despite the known biochemical production of a range of aromatic compounds by plants and the presence of benzenoids in floral scents, the emissions of only a few benzenoid …             Extra-long interglacial in Northern Hemisphere during MISs 15-13 arising from limited extent of Arctic ice sheets in glacial MIS 14 ▶     Qingzhen Hao, Luo Wang, Frank Oldfield et al.     Knowledge of the behavior of Northern Hemisphere (NH) ice sheets over the past million years is crucial for understanding the role of orbitally driven insolation changes on …             Corrigendum: An evolutionary inspection game with labour unions on small-world networks ▶     Salahuddin M. Kamal, Yas Al-Hadeethi, Fouad A. Abolaban et al.                 To brood or not to brood: Are marine invertebrates that protect their offspring more resilient to ocean acidification? ▶     Noelle Marie Lucey, Chiara Lombardi, Lucia DeMarchi et al.     Anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is being absorbed by seawater resulting in increasingly acidic oceans, a process known as ocean acidification (OA). OA is thought …             Neighborhood greenspace and health in a large urban center ▶     Omid Kardan, Peter Gozdyra, Bratislav Misic et al.     Studies have shown that natural environments can enhance health and here we build upon that work by examining the associations between comprehensive greenspace metrics and …             Agriculture intensifies soil moisture decline in Northern China ▶     Yaling Liu, Zhihua Pan, Qianlai Zhuang et al.     Northern China is one of the most densely populated regions in the world. Agricultural activities have intensified since the 1980s to provide food security to the country. …             China’s rising hydropower demand challenges water sector ▶     Junguo Liu, Dandan Zhao, P. W. Gerbens-Leenes et al.     Demand for hydropower is increasing, yet the water footprints (WFs) of reservoirs and hydropower, and their contributions to water scarcity, are poorly understood. Here, we …             Mammalian ranges are experiencing erosion of natural darkness ▶     James P. Duffy, Jonathan Bennie, América P. Durán et al.     The continuous increase in the intensity and extent of anthropogenic artificial light has significantly shaped Earth’s nighttime environment. This environmental change has …             Demographic comparison of sweetpotato weevil reared on a major host, Ipomoea batatas, and an alternative host, I. triloba ▶     Gadi V. P. Reddy, Hisn Chi     In this study, we collected life table data for the sweetpotato weevil, Cylas formicarius, grown on Ipomoea batatas and Ipomoea triloba, and analyzed them using an age-stage, …             Using Benford’s law to investigate Natural Hazard dataset homogeneity ▶     Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Thomas Bodin, Anja Scheffers et al.     Working with a large temporal dataset spanning several decades often represents a challenging task, especially when the record is heterogeneous and incomplete. The use of …             Precipitation deficits increase high diurnal temperature range extremes ▶     Bin He, Ling Huang, Qianfeng Wang     The relationship between precipitation deficits and extreme hot temperatures has been documented in observation and modeling studies. However, it is unclear whether and how …             Determinants of the lethality of climate-related disasters in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM): a cross-country analysis ▶     Aisha N. Andrewin, Jose M. Rodriguez-Llanes, Debarati Guha-Sapir     Floods and storms are climate-related hazards posing high mortality risk to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nations. However risk factors for their lethality remain untested. We …             Growth and reproduction of laboratory-reared neanurid Collembola using a novel slime mould diet ▶     Jessica L. Hoskins, Charlene Janion-Scheepers, Steven L. Chown et al.     Although significant progress has been made using insect taxa as model organisms, non-tracheated terrestrial arthropods, such as Collembola, are underrepresented as model …             The elusive life cycle of scyphozoan jellyfish – metagenesis revisited ▶     Janja Ceh, Jorge Gonzalez, Aldo S. Pacheco et al.     Massive proliferations of scyphozoan jellyfish considerably affect human industries and irreversibly change food webs. Efforts to understand the role of jellyfish in marine …             Mining microbial metatranscriptomes for expression of antibiotic resistance genes under natural conditions ▶     Dennis Versluis, Marco Maria D’Andrea, Javier Ramiro Garcia et al.     Antibiotic resistance genes are found in a broad range of ecological niches associated with complex microbiota. Here we investigated if resistance genes are not only present, but …             Analyzing Arabidopsis thaliana root proteome provides insights into the molecular bases of enantioselective imazethapyr toxicity ▶     Haifeng Qian, Haiping Lu, Haiyan Ding et al.     Imazethapyr (IM) is a widely used chiral herbicide that inhibits the synthesis of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs). IM is thought to exert its toxic effects on amino acid …             Combined impacts of global changes on biodiversity across the USA ▶     C. Bellard, C. Leclerc, F. Courchamp     Most studies of the effects of global changes on biodiversity focus on a single threat, but multiple threats lead to species extinction. We lack spatially explicit assessments of …             Anthropogenically enhanced chemical weathering and carbon evasion in the Yangtze Basin ▶     Jingheng Guo, Fushun Wang, Rolf David Vogt et al.     Chemical weathering is a fundamental geochemical process regulating the atmosphere-land-ocean fluxes and earth’s climate. It is under natural conditions driven primarily by weak …             Corrigendum: Archaeal amoA and ureC genes and their transcriptional activity in the Arctic Ocean ▶     Estelle Pedneault, Pierre E. Galand, Marianne Potvin et al.                 Survival in patchy landscapes: the interplay between dispersal, habitat loss and fragmentation ▶     Bernardo B. S. Niebuhr, Marina E. Wosniack, Marcos C. Santos et al.     Habitat loss and fragmentation are important factors determining animal population dynamics and spatial distribution. Such landscape changes can lead to the deleterious impact of …             Synthesis of diamond-like phase from graphite by ultrafast laser driven dynamical compression ▶     Francisco C. B. Maia, Ricardo E. Samad, Jefferson Bettini et al.     Rapid variations of the environmental energy caused by ultrashort laser pulses have induced phase transitions in carbon allotropes, therefore bringing the promise of revealing …             Dynamic transcriptome analysis and volatile profiling of Gossypium hirsutum in response to the cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera ▶     Xin-Zheng Huang, Jie-Yin Chen, Hai-Jun Xiao et al.     In response to insect herbivory, plants emit elevated levels of volatile organic compounds for direct and indirect resistance. 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