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10 November 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Rayleigh-wave dispersion reveals crust-mantle decoupling beneath eastern Tibet ▶     Cédric P. Legendre, Frédéric Deschamps, Li Zhao et al.     The Tibetan Plateau results from the collision of the Indian and Eurasian Plates during the Cenozoic, which produced at least 2,000 km of convergence. Its tectonics is dominated …             Recurring flood distribution patterns related to short-term Holocene climatic variability ▶     Gerardo Benito, Mark G. Macklin, Andrei Panin et al.     Millennial- and multi-centennial scale climate variability during the Holocene has been well documented, but its impact on the distribution and timing of extreme river floods has …             Phase boundary of hot dense fluid hydrogen ▶     Kenji Ohta, Kota Ichimaru, Mari Einaga et al.     We investigated the phase transformation of hot dense fluid hydrogen using static high-pressure laser-heating experiments in a laser-heated diamond anvil cell. The results show …             Accelerated CO2 transport on surface of AgO nanoparticles in ionic liquid BMIMBF4 ▶     Dahye Ji, Yong Soo Kang, Sang Wook Kang     The AgO nanoparticles were utilized for a CO2 separation membrane. The AgO nanoparticles were successfully generated in ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methyl imidazolium …             Ratiometric and colorimetric near-infrared sensors for multi-channel detection of cyanide ion and their application to measure β-glucosidase ▶     Panfei Xing, Yongqian Xu, Hongjuan Li et al.     A near-infrared sensor for cyanide ion (CN−) was developed via internal charge transfer (ICT). This sensor can selectively detect CN− either through dual-ratiometric fluorescence …             Protection of soil carbon within macro-aggregates depends on intra-aggregate pore characteristics ▶     Alexandra N. Kravchenko, Wakene C. Negassa, Andrey K. Guber et al.     Soil contains almost twice as much carbon (C) as the atmosphere and 5–15% of soil C is stored in a form of particulate organic matter (POM). Particulate organic matter C is …             Global effects of agriculture on fluvial dissolved organic matter ▶     Daniel Graeber, Iola G. Boëchat, Francisco Encina-Montoya et al.     Agricultural land covers approximately 40% of Earth’s land surface and affects hydromorphological, biogeochemical and ecological characteristics of fluvial networks. In the …             Simultaneous effective carbon and nitrogen removals and phosphorus recovery in an intermittently aerated membrane bioreactor integrated system ▶     Yun-Kun Wang, Xin-Rong Pan, Yi-Kun Geng et al.     Recovering nutrients, especially phosphate resource, from wastewater have attracted increasing interest recently. Herein, an intermittently aerated membrane bioreactor (MBR) with …             Unusual Deep Water sponge assemblage in South China—Witness of the end-Ordovician mass extinction ▶     Lixia Li, Hongzhen Feng, Dorte Janussen et al.     There are few sponges known from the end-Ordovician to early-Silurian strata all over the world, and no records of sponge fossils have been found yet in China during this …             The spatial distribution, accumulation and potential source of seldom monitored trace elements in sediments of Three Gorges Reservoir, China ▶     Lanfang Han, Bo Gao, Huaidong Zhou et al.     The alteration of hydrologic condition of Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) after impoundment has caused numerous environmental changes. This study investigated the distribution, …             Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole on dengue incidence in Bangladesh ▶     Shahera Banu, Yuming Guo, Wenbiao Hu et al.     Dengue dynamics are driven by complex interactions between hosts, vectors and viruses that are influenced by environmental and climatic factors. Several studies examined the role …             Barnyard grasses were processed with rice around 10000 years ago ▶     Xiaoyan Yang, Dorian Q Fuller, Xiujia Huan et al.     Rice (Oryza sativa) is regarded as the only grass that was selected for cultivation and eventual domestication in the Yangtze basin of China. Although both macro-fossils and …             Bioaggregate of photo-fermentative bacteria for enhancing continuous hydrogen production in a sequencing batch photobioreactor ▶     Guo-Jun Xie, Bing-Feng Liu, Rui-Qing Wang et al.     Hydrogen recovery through solar-driven biomass conversion by photo-fermentative bacteria (PFB) has been regarded as a promising way for sustainable energy production. However, a …             Assessing Connectivity Between an Overlying Aquifer and a Coal Seam Gas Resource Using Methane Isotopes, Dissolved Organic Carbon and Tritium ▶     Charlotte P. Iverach, Dioni I. Cendón, Stuart I. Hankin et al.     Coal seam gas (CSG) production can have an impact on groundwater quality and quantity in adjacent or overlying aquifers. To assess this impact we need to determine the background …             Forest soil carbon is threatened by intensive biomass harvesting ▶     David L. Achat, Mathieu Fortin, Guy Landmann et al.     Forests play a key role in the carbon cycle as they store huge quantities of organic carbon, most of which is stored in soils, with a smaller part being held in vegetation. While …             Highly sensitive image-derived indices of water-stressed plants using hyperspectral imaging in SWIR and histogram analysis ▶     David M. Kim, Hairong Zhang, Haiying Zhou et al.     The optical signature of leaves is an important monitoring and predictive parameter for a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses, including drought. Such signatures derived from …             What Has Caused Desertification in China? ▶     Qi Feng, Hua Ma, Xuemei Jiang et al.     Desertification is the result of complex interactions among various factors, including climate change and human activities. However, previous research generally focused on either …             Coastal sea level projections with improved accounting for vertical land motion ▶     Guoqi Han, Zhimin Ma, Nan Chen et al.     Regional and coastal mean sea level projections in the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) account only for vertical land motion (VLM) …             A novel approach combining self-organizing map and parallel factor analysis for monitoring water quality of watersheds under non-point source pollution ▶     Yixiang Zhang, Xinqiang Liang, Zhibo Wang et al.     High content of organic matter in the downstream of watersheds underscored the severity of non-point source (NPS) pollution. The major objectives of this study were to …             Crude oil as a microbial seed bank with unexpected functional potentials ▶     Man Cai, Yong Nie, Chang-Qiao Chi et al.     It was widely believed that oil is a harsh habitat for microbes because of its high toxicity and hydrophobicity. However, accumulating evidence has revealed the presence of live …             Carbon mineralization pathways and bioturbation in coastal Brazilian sediments ▶     Cintia O. Quintana, Maurício Shimabukuro, Camila O. Pereira et al.     Carbon mineralization processes and their dependence on environmental conditions (e.g. through macrobenthic bioturbation) have been widely studied in temperate coastal sediments, …             Bio-grout based on microbially induced sand solidification by means of asparaginase activity ▶     Mengmeng Li, Qing-Long Fu, Qiuzhuo Zhang et al.     Bio-grout, a new ground improvement method, has been recently developed to improve the mechanical properties, decrease the permeability of porous materials, reinforce or repair …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Bioinformatics Scientist (M / F)     Uniklinik RWTH Aachen            Research Assistant     University of Bristol            13 PhD positions     Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research            Post-doctoral Positions University of Vermont     University of Vermont            Postdoctoral Researcher     John Innes Centre (JIC)            Fellowships     Lundbeck Foundation            Independent Research Fellows     The University of Manchester            Assistant Professor     University of Memphis            Postdoctoral Fellow     Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute            Research Scientist     University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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