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28 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               Field populations of native Indian honey bees from pesticide intensive agricultural landscape show signs of impaired olfaction ▶     Priyadarshini Chakrabarti, Santanu Rana, Sreejata Bandopadhyay et al.     Little information is available regarding the adverse effects of pesticides on natural honey bee populations. This study highlights the detrimental effects of pesticides on honey …             Spatial boundary of urban ‘acid islands’ in southern China ▶     E. Du, W. de Vries, X. Liu et al.     Elevated emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and ammonia in China have resulted in high levels of sulfur and nitrogen deposition, being contributors to soil …             Inner workings of thrombolites: spatial gradients of metabolic activity as revealed by metatranscriptome profiling ▶     J. M. Mobberley, C. L. M. Khodadad, P. T. Visscher et al.     Microbialites are sedimentary deposits formed by the metabolic interactions of microbes and their environment. These lithifying microbial communities represent one of the oldest …             Stratospheric Ozone destruction by the Bronze-Age Minoan eruption (Santorini Volcano, Greece) ▶     Anita Cadoux, Bruno Scaillet, Slimane Bekki et al.     The role of volcanogenic halogen-bearing (i.e. chlorine and bromine) compounds in stratospheric ozone chemistry and climate forcing is poorly constrained. While the 1991 eruption …             Decline of Yangtze River water and sediment discharge: Impact from natural and anthropogenic changes ▶     S. L. Yang, K. H. Xu, J. D. Milliman et al.     The increasing impact of both climatic change and human activities on global river systems necessitates an increasing need to identify and quantify the various drivers and their …             What have we learned from global change manipulative experiments in China? A meta-analysis ▶     Zheng Fu, Shuli Niu, Jeffrey S. Dukes     Although China has the largest population in the world, a faster rate of warming than the global average, and an active global change research program, results from many of the …             Impact of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation on Tropical Cyclone Activity in the North Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific ▶     Wenhong Li, Laifang Li, Yi Deng     Tropical cyclones (TCs) are among the most devastating weather systems affecting the United States and Central America (USCA). Here we show that the Interdecadal Pacific …             Quantitative determination of target gene with electrical sensor ▶     Xuzhi Zhang, Qiufen Li, Xianshi Jin et al.     Integrating loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) with capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection (C4D), we have developed an electrical sensor for the …             l-Asparaginase from Streptomyces griseus NIOT-VKMA29: optimization of process variables using factorial designs and molecular characterization of l-asparaginase gene ▶     Balakrishnan Meena, Lawrance Anburajan, Thadikamala Sathish et al.     Marine actinobacteria are known to be a rich source for novel metabolites with diverse biological activities. In this study, a potential extracellular L-asparaginase was …             Spider foraging strategy affects trophic cascades under natural and drought conditions ▶     Shengjie Liu, Jin Chen, Wenjin Gan et al.     Spiders can cause trophic cascades affecting litter decomposition rates. However, it remains unclear how spiders with different foraging strategies influence faunal communities, …             Pushing back the limits of Raman imaging by coupling super-resolution and chemometrics for aerosols characterization ▶     Marc Offroy, Myriam Moreau, Sophie Sobanska et al.     The increasing interest in nanoscience in many research fields like physics, chemistry, and biology, including the environmental fate of the produced nano-objects, requires …             Eco-friendly carbon-nanodot-based fluorescent paints for advanced photocatalytic systems ▶     So Young Park, Hyun Uk Lee, Young-Chul Lee et al.     Fluorescent carbon nanomaterials, especially zero-dimensional (0D) carbon nanodots (CDs), are widely used in broad biological and optoelectronic applications. CDs have unique …             A route to possible civil engineering materials: the case of high-pressure phases of lime ▶     A. Bouibes, A. Zaoui     Lime system has a chemical composition CaO, which is known as thermodynamically stable. The purpose here is to explore further possible phases under pressure, by means of …             A Novel Bio-carrier Fabricated Using 3D Printing Technique for Wastewater Treatment ▶     Yang Dong, Shu-Qian Fan, Yu Shen et al.     The structure of bio-carriers is one of the key operational characteristics of a biofilm reactor. The goal of this study is to develop a series of novel fullerene-type …             Potential for DNA-based identification of Great Lakes fauna: match and mismatch between taxa inventories and DNA barcode libraries ▶     Anett S. Trebitz, Joel C. Hoffman, George W. Grant et al.     DNA-based identification of mixed-organism samples offers the potential to greatly reduce the need for resource-intensive morphological identification, which would be of value …             Geochemical fractions of rare earth elements in soil around a mine tailing in Baotou, China ▶     Lingqing Wang, Tao Liang     Rare earth mine tailing dumps are environmental hazards because tailing easily leaches and erodes by water and wind. To assess the influence of mine tailing on the geochemical …             Regional Contrasts of the Warming Rate over Land Significantly Depend on the Calculation Methods of Mean Air Temperature ▶     Kaicun Wang, Chunlüe Zhou     Global analyses of surface mean air temperature (Tm) are key datasets for climate change studies and provide fundamental evidences for global warming. However, the causes of …             Evaluation on the Nanoscale Zero Valent Iron Based Microbial Denitrification for Nitrate Removal from Groundwater ▶     Lai Peng, Yiwen Liu, Shu-Hong Gao et al.     Nanoscale zero valent iron (NZVI) based microbial denitrification has been demonstrated to be a promising technology for nitrate removal from groundwater. In this work, a …             Body size distributions of the pale grass blue butterfly in Japan: Size rules and the status of the Fukushima population ▶     Wataru Taira, Mayo Iwasaki, Joji M. Otaki     The body size of the pale grass blue butterfly, Zizeeria maha, has been used as an environmental indicator of radioactive pollution caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident. …             Specialised emission pattern of leaf trace in a late Permian (253 million-years old) conifer ▶     Hai-Bo Wei, Zhuo Feng, Ji-Yuan Yang et al.     Leaf traces are important structures in higher plants that connect leaves and the stem vascular system. The anatomy and emission pattern of leaf traces are well studied in extant …             Oxalate secretion by ectomycorrhizal Paxillus involutus is mineral-specific and controls calcium weathering from minerals ▶     A. Schmalenberger, A. L. Duran, A. W. Bray et al.     Trees and their associated rhizosphere organisms play a major role in mineral weathering driving calcium fluxes from the continents to the oceans that ultimately control …             Response of aboveground biomass and diversity to nitrogen addition along a degradation gradient in the Inner Mongolian steppe, China ▶     Xiaotian Xu, Hongyan Liu, Zhaoliang Song et al.     Although nitrogen addition and recovery from degradation can both promote production of grassland biomass, these two factors have rarely been investigated in combination. In this …             Water regime history drives responses of soil Namib Desert microbial communities to wetting events ▶     Aline Frossard, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Mary Seely et al.     Despite the dominance of microorganisms in arid soils, the structures and functional dynamics of microbial communities in hot deserts remain largely unresolved. The effects of …             ITG: A New Global GNSS Tropospheric Correction Model ▶     Yibin Yao, Chaoqian Xu, Junbo Shi et al.     Tropospheric correction models are receiving increasing attentions, as they play a crucial role in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Most commonly used models to date …             A Long Neglected Damper in the El Niño—Typhoon Relationship: a ‘Gaia-Like’ Process ▶     Zhe-Wen Zheng, I.-I. Lin, Bin Wang et al.     Proposed in the early 1970’s, the Gaia hypothesis suggests that our planet earth has a self-regulating ability to maintain a stable condition for life. Tropical cyclone (TC) is …             Fertile fathoms: Deep reproductive refugia for threatened shallow corals ▶     Daniel M. Holstein, Tyler B. Smith, Joanna Gyory et al.     The persistence of natural metapopulations may depend on subpopulations that exist at the edges of species ranges, removed from anthropogenic stress. Mesophotic coral ecosystems …             Common dependence on stress for the statistics of granular avalanches and earthquakes ▶     Takahiro Hatano, Clément Narteau, Peter Shebalin     Both earthquake size-distributions and aftershock decay rates obey power laws. 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