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17 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               Climatic warming and the future of bison as grazers ▶     Joseph M. Craine, E. Gene Towne, Mary Miller et al.     Climatic warming is likely to exacerbate nutritional stress and reduce weight gain in large mammalian herbivores by reducing plant nutritional quality. Yet accurate predictions …             Impacts of the ENSO Modoki and other Tropical Indo-Pacific Climate-Drivers on African Rainfall ▶     B. Preethi, T. P. Sabin, J. A. Adedoyin et al.     The study diagnoses the relative impacts of the four known tropical Indo-Pacific drivers, namely, El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), ENSO Modoki, Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), and …             Heat Transport Compensation in Atmosphere and Ocean over the Past 22,000 Years ▶     Haijun Yang, Yingying Zhao, Zhengyu Liu et al.     The Earth’s climate has experienced dramatic changes over the past 22,000 years; however, the total meridional heat transport (MHT) of the climate system remains stable. A …             The coastal ocean response to the global warming acceleration and hiatus ▶     Enhui Liao, Wenfang Lu, Xiao-Hai Yan et al.     Coastlines are fundamental to humans for habitation, commerce, and natural resources. Many coastal ecosystem disasters, caused by extreme sea surface temperature (SST), were …             Hierarchical, porous CuS microspheres integrated with carbon nanotubes for high-performance supercapacitors ▶     Yang Lu, Xianming Liu, Weixiao Wang et al.     Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) incorporated porous 3-dimensional (3D) CuS microspheres have been successfully synthesized via a simple refluxing method assisted by PVP. The composites …             Bumblebee learning and memory is impaired by chronic exposure to a neonicotinoid pesticide ▶     Dara A. Stanley, Karen E. Smith, Nigel E. Raine     Bumblebees are exposed to pesticides applied for crop protection while foraging on treated plants, with increasing evidence suggesting that this sublethal exposure has …             A Deep Look Into Erionite Fibres: an Electron Microscopy Investigation of their Self-Assembly ▶     Roberto Matassa, Giuseppe Familiari, Michela Relucenti et al.     The exposure of humans to erionite fibres of appropriate morphology and dimension has been unambiguously linked to the occurrence of Malignant Mesothelioma. For this reason, a …             Influence of copper content on the electrocatalytic activity toward methanol oxidation of CoχCuy alloy nanoparticles-decorated CNFs ▶     Zafar Khan Ghouri, Nasser A. M. Barakat, Hak Yong Kim     In this study, CoCu alloy nanoparticles-incorporated carbon nanofibers are introduced as effective non precious electrocatalyst for methanol oxidation in alkaline medium. The …             Rapid Recent Warming of Coral Reefs in the Florida Keys ▶     Derek P. Manzello     Coral reef decline in the Florida Keys has been well-publicized, controversial, and polarizing owing to debate over the causative agent being climate change versus overfishing. …             Radiological dose reconstruction for birds reconciles outcomes of Fukushima with knowledge of dose-effect relationships ▶     Jacqueline Garnier-Laplace, Karine Beaugelin-Seiller, Claire Della-Vedova et al.     We reconstructed the radiological dose for birds observed at 300 census sites in the 50-km northwest area affected by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant …             Messengers from the deep: Fossil wadsleyite-chromite microstructures from the Mantle Transition Zone ▶     Takako Satsukawa, William L. Griffin, Sandra Piazolo et al.     Investigations of the Mantle Transition Zone (MTZ; 410–660 km deep) by deformation experiments and geophysical methods suggest that the MTZ has distinct rheological properties, …             Spatial distribution patterns of ammonia-oxidizing archaea abundance in subtropical forests at early and late successional stages ▶     Jie Chen, Hui Zhang, Wei Liu et al.     Characterizing the spatial distribution patterns of soil microorganisms is helpful in understanding the biogeochemical processes they perform, but has been less studied relative …             Large diurnal temperature range increases bird sensitivity to climate change ▶     Michael Briga, Simon Verhulst     Climate variability is changing on multiple temporal scales, and little is known of the consequences of increases in short-term variability, particularly in endotherms. Using …             HydroCrowd: a citizen science snapshot to assess the spatial control of nitrogen solutes in surface waters ▶     Lutz Breuer, Noreen Hiery, Philipp Kraft et al.     We organized a crowdsourcing experiment in the form of a snapshot sampling campaign to assess the spatial distribution of nitrogen solutes, namely, nitrate, ammonium and …             Integration of coal gasification and waste heat recovery from high temperature steel slags: an emerging strategy to emission reduction ▶     Yongqi Sun, Seetharaman Sridhar, Lili Liu et al.     With the continuous urbanization and industrialization in the world, energy saving and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction have been serious issues to be addressed, for which …             Winter cropping in Ficus tinctoria: an alternative strategy ▶     Huanhuan Chen, Yanqiong Peng, Yuan Zhang et al.     The many species of figs (Ficus, Moraceae) have evolved a variety of reproductive phenologies that ensure the survival of both the fig plants and their short-lived, …             Label-free colorimetric detection of mercury via Hg2+ ions-accelerated structural transformation of nanoscale metal-oxo clusters ▶     Kun Chen, Shan She, Jiangwei Zhang et al.     Mercury and its compounds are known to be extremely toxic but widely distributed in environment. Although many works have been reported to efficiently detect mercury, development …             Magnetite nanoparticles facilitate methane production from ethanol via acting as electron acceptors ▶     Zhiman Yang, Xiaoshuang Shi, Chuanshui Wang et al.     Potential for interspecies hydrogen transfer within paddy soil enrichments obtained via addition of magnetite nanoparticles and ethanol (named as PEM) was investigated. To do …             Eco-physiological adaptation shapes the response of calcifying algae to nutrient limitation ▶     Luka Šupraha, Andrea C. Gerecht, Ian Probert et al.     The steady increase in global ocean temperature will most likely lead to nutrient limitation in the photic zone. This will impact the physiology of marine algae, including the …             Crystallization and precipitation of phosphate from swine wastewater by magnesium metal corrosion ▶     Haiming Huang, Jiahui Liu, Yang Jiang     This paper presents a unique approach for magnesium dosage in struvite precipitation by Mg metal corrosion. The experimental results showed that using an air bubbling column …             Multiscale and multiresolution modeling of shales and their flow and morphological properties ▶     Pejman Tahmasebi, Farzam Javadpour, Muhammad Sahimi     The need for more accessible energy resources makes shale formations increasingly important. Characterization of such low-permeability formations is complicated, due to the …             Fast-moving dislocations trigger flash weakening in carbonate-bearing faults during earthquakes ▶     Elena Spagnuolo, Oliver Plümper, Marie Violay et al.     Rupture fronts can cause fault displacement, reaching speeds up to several ms−1 within a few milliseconds, at any distance away from the earthquake nucleation area. In the case …             Methane excess in Arctic surface water- triggered by sea ice formation and melting ▶     E. Damm, B. Rudels, U. Schauer et al.     Arctic amplification of global warming has led to increased summer sea ice retreat, which influences gas exchange between the Arctic Ocean and the atmosphere where sea ice …             Ice nucleation active particles are efficiently removed by precipitating clouds ▶     Emiliano Stopelli, Franz Conen, Cindy E. Morris et al.     Ice nucleation in cold clouds is a decisive step in the formation of rain and snow. Observations and modelling suggest that variations in the concentrations of ice nucleating …             Gravity-driven postseismic deformation following the Mw 6.3 2009 L’Aquila (Italy) earthquake ▶     Matteo Albano, Salvatore Barba, Michele Saroli et al.     The present work focuses on the postseismic deformation observed in the region of L’Aquila (central Italy) following the Mw 6.3 earthquake that occurred on April 6, 2009. A new, …             Reduced grazing pressure delivers production and environmental benefits for the typical steppe of north China ▶     Yingjun Zhang, Ding Huang, Warwick B. Badgery et al.     Degradation by overgrazing is common in many areas of the world and optimising grassland functions depends upon finding suitable grazing tactics. This four-year study on the …             Virulence of recurrent infestations with Borrelia-infected ticks in a Borrelia-amplifying bird ▶     Dieter J. A. Heylen, Wendt Müller, Anke Vermeulen et al.     Lyme disease cases caused by Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. bacteria is increasing steadily in Europe, in part due to the expansion of the vector, Ixodes ricinus. Wild reservoir hosts …             A mineralogical study in contrasts: highly mineralized whale rostrum and human enamel ▶     Zhen Li, Maisoon AI-Jawad, Samera Siddiqui et al.     The outermost enamel of the human tooth and the rostrum of the whale Mesoplodon densirostris are two highly mineralized tissues that contain over 95 wt.% mineral, i.e., …             A novel method to quantify the emission and conversion of VOCs in the smoking of electronic cigarettes ▶     Yong-Hyun Kim, Ki-Hyun Kim     An analytical technique was developed for the quantitation of volatile organic compounds (VOC) in three different forms of electronic cigarette (EC): solution, vapor, and …             Facile room-temperature synthesis of carboxylated graphene oxide-copper sulfide nanocomposite with high photodegradation and disinfection activities under solar light irradiation ▶     Shuyan Yu, Jincheng Liu, Wenyu Zhu et al.     Carboxylic acid functionalized graphene oxide-copper (II) sulfide nanoparticle composite (GO-COOH-CuS) was prepared from carboxylated graphene oxide and copper precursor in …             Sulfur alleviates arsenic toxicity by reducing its accumulation and modulating proteome, amino acids and thiol metabolism in rice leaves ▶     Garima Dixit, Amit Pal Singh, Amit Kumar et al.     Arsenic (As) contamination of water is a global concern and rice consumption is the biggest dietary exposure to human posing carcinogenic risks, predominantly in Asia. 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