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24 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               Remote influence of Atlantic multidecadal variability on Siberian warm season precipitation ▶     Cheng Sun, Jianping Li, Sen Zhao     The time series of 20th century Siberian warm season (May to October) precipitation (SWP) shows variations over decadal timescales, including a wetting trend since the 1970s. …             Modeling the consequences of the demise and potential recovery of a keystone-species: wild rabbits and avian scavengers in Mediterranean landscapes ▶     Ainara Cortés-Avizanda, Maria Àngels Colomer, Antoni Margalida et al.     Restoration of demised keystone-species populations is an overriding concern in conservation biology. However, since no population is independent of its environment, progress is …             Extreme lithium isotopic fractionation in three zircon standards (Plešovice, Qinghu and Temora) ▶     Yu-Ya Gao, Xian-Hua Li, William L. Griffin et al.     To understand the behavior of Li in zircon, we have analyzed the abundance and isotopic composition of Li in three zircon standards (Plešovice, Qinghu and Temora) widely used for …             Covariability of western tropical Pacific-North Pacific atmospheric circulation during summer ▶     Kyung-Sook Yun, Sang-Wook Yeh, Kyung-Ja Ha     North Pacific subtropical high (NPSH) is permanent high-pressure system over the Northern Pacific Ocean and it extends to the western North Pacific during the boreal summer …             Evaluation of Reference Genes for RT-qPCR Studies in the Seagrass Zostera muelleri Exposed to Light Limitation ▶     M. Schliep, M. Pernice, S. Sinutok et al.     Seagrass meadows are threatened by coastal development and global change. In the face of these pressures, molecular techniques such as reverse transcription quantitative …             Space resource utilisation: a novel indicator to quantify species competitive ability for light ▶     Pengfei Zhang, Xiaolong Zhou, Junyong Li et al.     Species richness and productivity are two fundamental aspects of ecosystems. As a result, the relationship between species richness and productivity has been widely studied. A …             Assessing the impact of removal scenarios on population viability of a threatened, long-lived avian scavenger ▶     Antoni Margalida, Mª Àngels Colomer, Daniel Oro et al.     The removal of eggs or chicks from wild populations to create captive populations, reinforce free-ranging populations or reintroduce species into the wild is a restoration tool …             Evidence of discrete yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) populations demands rethink of management for this globally important resource ▶     P. M. Grewe, P. Feutry, P. L. Hill et al.     Tropical tuna fisheries are central to food security and economic development of many regions of the world. Contemporary population assessment and management generally assume …             Biochar as an electron shuttle for reductive dechlorination of pentachlorophenol by Geobacter sulfurreducens ▶     Linpeng Yu, Yong Yuan, Jia Tang et al.     The reductive dechlorination of pentachlorophenol (PCP) by Geobacter sulfurreducens in the presence of different biochars was investigated to understand how biochars affect the …             Outbreak of coral-eating Crown-of-Thorns creates continuous cloud of larvae over 320 km of the Great Barrier Reef ▶     S. Uthicke, J. Doyle, S. Duggan et al.     Coral reefs are in decline worldwide due to a combination of local and global causes. Over 40% of the recent coral loss on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) has been …             Influence of Humic Acid Complexation with Metal Ions on Extracellular Electron Transfer Activity ▶     Shungui Zhou, Shanshan Chen, Yong Yuan et al.     Humic acids (HAs) can act as electron shuttles and mediate biogeochemical cycles, thereby influencing the transformation of nutrients and environmental pollutants. HAs commonly …             A new cost-effective method to mitigate ammonia loss from intensive cattle feedlots: application of lignite ▶     Deli Chen, Jianlei Sun, Mei Bai et al.     In open beef feedlot systems, more than 50% of dietary nitrogen (N) is lost as ammonia (NH3). Here we report an effective and economically-viable method to mitigate NH3 emissions …             Importance of Oceanian small mountainous rivers (SMRs) in global land-to-ocean output of lignin and modern biospheric carbon ▶     Hongyan Bao, Tsung-Yu Lee, Jr-Chuan Huang et al.     The land-to-ocean export of particulate organic carbon (POC) connects carbon flow from the atmosphere through land to the ocean, of which the contemporary fraction that reaches …             Additional Arctic observations improve weather and sea-ice forecasts for the Northern Sea Route ▶     Jun Inoue, Akira Yamazaki, Jun Ono et al.     During ice-free periods, the Northern Sea Route (NSR) could be an attractive shipping route. The decline in Arctic sea-ice extent, however, could be associated with an increase …             Atomic force microscopy measurements of bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation onto clay-sized particles ▶     Qiaoyun Huang, Huayong Wu, Peng Cai et al.     Bacterial adhesion onto mineral surfaces and subsequent biofilm formation play key roles in aggregate stability, mineral weathering, and the fate of contaminants in soils. …             Snow occurrence changes over the central and eastern United States under future warming scenarios ▶     Liang Ning, Raymond S. Bradley     Changes of snow occurrence across the central and eastern United States under future warming for the late 21st century are investigated by applying an empirical hyperbolic …             Soil mulching significantly enhances yields and water and nitrogen use efficiencies of maize and wheat: a meta-analysis ▶     Wei Qin, Chunsheng Hu, Oene Oenema     Global crop yields are limited by water and nutrient availability. Soil mulching (with plastic or straw) reduces evaporation, modifies soil temperature and thereby affects crop …             A Description for Rock Joint Roughness Based on Terrestrial Laser Scanner and Image Analysis ▶     Yunfeng Ge, Huiming Tang, M. A. M Ez Eldin et al.     Shear behavior of rock mass greatly depends upon the rock joint roughness which is generally characterized by anisotropy, scale effect and interval effect. A new index enabling …             Observed contrast changes in snow cover phenology in northern middle and high latitudes from 2001–2014 ▶     Xiaona Chen, Shunlin Liang, Yunfeng Cao et al.     Quantifying and attributing the phenological changes in snow cover are essential for meteorological, hydrological, ecological, and societal implications. However, snow cover …             Growing magma chambers control the distribution of small-scale flood basalts ▶     Xun Yu, Li-Hui Chen, Gang Zeng     Small-scale continental flood basalts are a global phenomenon characterized by regular spatio-temporal distributions. However, no genetic mechanism has been proposed to explain …             Nutrient Loads Flowing into Coastal Waters from the Main Rivers of China (2006–2012) ▶     Yindong Tong, Yue Zhao, Gengchong Zhen et al.     Based on monthly monitoring data of unfiltered water, the nutrient discharges of the eight main rivers flowing into the coastal waters of China were calculated from 2006 to 2012. …             El Niño-Southern Oscillation, local weather and occurrences of dengue virus serotypes ▶     Xiaodong Huang, Archie C.A. Clements, Gail Williams et al.     Severe dengue fever is usually associated with secondary infection by a dengue virus (DENV) serotype (1 to 4) that is different to the serotype of the primary infection. Dengue …             The preferential accumulation of heavy metals in different tissues following frequent respiratory exposure to PM2.5 in rats ▶     Qingzhao Li, Huibin Liu, Mohamed Alattar et al.     This study aimed to explore the pattern of accumulation of some of main heavy metals in blood and various organs of rats after exposed to the atmospheric fine particulate matter …             Impact of Fish Farming on Phosphorus in Reservoir Sediments ▶     Binyang Jia, Ya Tang, Liyan Tian et al.     Fish farming has seriously influenced the aquatic environment in Sancha reservoir in SW China since 1985 and has been strongly restricted since 2005. Thus, phosphorus speciation …             Global analysis of the effect of local climate on the hatchling output of leatherback turtles ▶     Pilar Santidrián Tomillo, Vincent S. Saba, Claudia D. Lombard et al.     The most recent climate change projections show a global increase in temperatures along with precipitation changes throughout the 21st century. However, regional projections do …             Climate-driven environmental changes around 8,200 years ago favoured increases in cetacean strandings and Mediterranean hunter-gatherers exploited them ▶     Marcello A. Mannino, Sahra Talamo, Antonio Tagliacozzo et al.     Cetacean mass strandings occur regularly worldwide, yet the compounded effects of natural and anthropogenic factors often complicate our understanding of these phenomena. …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Group leader at the CBI     Centre for Integrative Biology            Postdoctoral Fellow     The University of Tennessee Health Science Center            PhD student (f / m)     German Center for Neurodegenerative Deseases            Research Associate     University of Glasgow            PhD Studentship x 2 (Fixed Term)     University of Cambridge            Postdoctoral Fellow     University of Pennsylvania            Research Associate B     Dartmouth College            Research Assistant     University of Bristol            Postdoctoral Research Scientist     The Babraham Institute            Postdoctoral Fellowship     Linköping University (LiU)          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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