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15 December 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Plant stoichiometric responses to elevated CO2 vary with nitrogen and phosphorus inputs: Evidence from a global-scale meta-analysis ▶     Wenjuan Huang, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Alison R. Marklein et al.     Rising levels of atmospheric CO2 have been implicated in changes in the nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) content of terrestrial vegetation; however, questions remain over the role …             Ultrafast degradation of azo dyes catalyzed by cobalt-based metallic glass ▶     X. D. Qin, Z. W. Zhu, G. Liu et al.     Reactivity and mass loss are considered mutually exclusive in conventional zero-valent metal (ZVM) technology to treat environmental contaminants. Here, we report the outstanding …             Impact of oil spills on coral reefs can be reduced by bioremediation using probiotic microbiota ▶     Henrique Fragoso ados Santos, Gustavo Adolpho Santos Duarte, Caio TavoraCoelho da Costa Rachid et al.     Several anthropogenic factors, including contamination by oil spills, constitute a threat to coral reef health. Current methodologies to remediate polluted marine environments …             Suspended sediments limit coral sperm availability ▶     Gerard F. Ricardo, Ross J. Jones, Peta L. Clode et al.     Suspended sediment from dredging activities and natural resuspension events represent a risk to the reproductive processes of coral, and therefore the ongoing maintenance of …             The influence of mid-latitude storm tracks on hot, cold, dry and wet extremes ▶     Jascha Lehmann, Dim Coumou     Changes in mid-latitude circulation can strongly affect the number and intensity of extreme weather events. In particular, high-amplitude quasi-stationary planetary waves have …             Different soil respiration responses to litter manipulation in three subtropical successional forests ▶     Tianfeng Han, Wenjuan Huang, Juxiu Liu et al.     Aboveground litter inputs have been greatly altered by human disturbances and climate change, which have important effects on soil respiration. However, the knowledge of how soil …             Global land moisture trends: drier in dry and wetter in wet over land ▶     Huihui Feng, Mingyang Zhang     The “dry gets drier, wet gets wetter” (DGDWGW) paradigm is widely accepted in global moisture change. However, Greve et al. have declared that this paradigm has been …             Linkage between Three Gorges Dam impacts and the dramatic recessions in China’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake ▶     Xuefei Mei, Zhijun Dai, Jinzhou Du et al.     Despite comprising a small portion of the earth’s surface, lakes are vitally important for global ecosystem cycling. However, lake systems worldwide are extremely fragile, and …             Environmental transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans drives dynamics of Buruli ulcer in endemic regions of Cameroon ▶     Andrés Garchitorena, Calistus N. Ngonghala, Gaëtan Texier et al.     Buruli Ulcer is a devastating skin disease caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans. Emergence and distribution of Buruli ulcer cases is clearly linked to aquatic …             pH-Triggered Molecular Alignment for Reproducible SERS Detection via an AuNP/Nanocellulose Platform ▶     Haoran Wei, Peter J. Vikesland     The low affinity of neutral and hydrophobic molecules towards noble metal surfaces hinders their detection by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). Herein, we present a …             Non-linear, non-monotonic effect of nano-scale roughness on particle deposition in absence of an energy barrier: Experiments and modeling ▶     Chao Jin, Tomasz Glawdel, Carolyn L. Ren et al.     Deposition of colloidal- and nano-scale particles on surfaces is critical to numerous natural and engineered environmental, health, and industrial applications ranging from …             A Mechanistic Understanding of a Binary Additive System to Synergistically Boost Efficiency in All-Polymer Solar Cells ▶     Yu Jin Kim, Sunyong Ahn, Dong Hwan Wang et al.     All-polymer solar cells are herein presented utilizing the PBDTTT-CT donor and the P(NDI2OD-T2) acceptor with 1,8-diiodooctane (DIO) and 1-chloronaphthalene (CN) binary solvent …             Balancing bulk gas accumulation and gas output before and during lava fountaining episodes at Mt. Etna ▶     Daniele Carbone, Luciano Zuccarello, Alfio Messina et al.     We focus on a sequence of 9 lava fountains from Etna that occurred in 2011, separated by intervals of 5 to 10 days. Continuous measurements allowed to discover the occurrence of …             Climate Change and the Evolution and Fate of the Tangier Islands of Chesapeake Bay, USA ▶     David M. Schulte, Karin M. Dridge, Mark H. Hudgins     Climate change and associated sea level rise (SLR) are already impacting low-lying coastal areas, including islands, throughout the world. Many of these areas are inhabited, many …             Stronger warming effects on microbial abundances in colder regions ▶     Ji Chen, Yiqi Luo, Jianyang Xia et al.     Soil microbes play critical roles in regulating terrestrial carbon (C) cycle and its feedback to climate change. However, it is still unclear how the soil microbial community and …             Corresponding morphological and molecular indicators of crude oil toxicity to the developing hearts of mahi mahi ▶     Richard C. Edmunds, J. A. Gill, David H. Baldwin et al.     Crude oils from distinct geological sources worldwide are toxic to developing fish hearts. When oil spills occur in fish spawning habitats, natural resource injury assessments …             The long-term fate of permafrost peatlands under rapid climate warming ▶     Graeme T. Swindles, Paul J. Morris, Donal Mullan et al.     Permafrost peatlands contain globally important amounts of soil organic carbon, owing to cold conditions which suppress anaerobic decomposition. However, climate warming and …             Phosphorus Concentrations in Sequentially Fractionated Soil Samples as Affected by Digestion Methods ▶     Carlos A. C. do Nascimento, Paulo H. Pagliari, Djalma Schmitt et al.     Sequential fractionation has helped improving our understanding of the lability and bioavailability of P in soil. Nevertheless, there have been no reports on how manipulation of …             Extreme decay of meteoric beryllium-10 as a proxy for persistent aridity ▶     Rachel D. Valletta, Jane K. Willenbring, Adam R. Lewis et al.     The modern Antarctic Dry Valleys are locked in a hyper-arid, polar climate that enables the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) to remain stable, frozen to underlying bedrock. The …             Can live weight be used as a proxy for enteric methane emissions from pasture-fed sheep? ▶     J. M. Moorby, H. R. Fleming, V. J. Theobald et al.     To test the hypothesis that sheep live weight (LW) could be used to improve enteric methane (CH4) emission calculations, mature ewes of 4 different breeds representative of the UK…             Transcriptome analysis of the key role of GAT2 gene in the hyper-accumulation of copper in the oyster Crassostrea angulata ▶     Bo Shi, Zekun Huang, Xu Xiang et al.     One paradigm of oysters as the hyper-accumulators of many toxic metals is the inter-individual variation of metals, but the molecular mechanisms remain very elusive. A …             Microplastics profile along the Rhine River ▶     Thomas Mani, Armin Hauk, Ulrich Walter et al.     Microplastics result from fragmentation of plastic debris or are released to the environment as pre-production pellets or components of consumer and industrial products. In the …             Impacts of impervious surface expansion on soil organic carbon – a spatially explicit study ▶     Yan Yan, Wenhui Kuang, Chi Zhang et al.     The rapid expansion of impervious surface areas (ISA) threatens soil organic carbon (SOC) pools in urbanized areas globally. The paucity of field observations on SOC under ISA …             Thermal catalytic oxidation of octachloronaphthalene over anatase TiO2 nanomaterial and its hypothesized mechanism ▶     Guijin Su, Qianqian Li, Huijie Lu et al.     As an environmentally-green technology, thermal catalytic oxidation of octachloronaphthalene (CN-75) over anatase TiO2 nanomaterials was investigated at 300 °C. A wide range of …             Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Highly-Crumpled, Few-Layered Graphene and Nitrogen-Doped Graphene for Use as High-Performance Electrodes in Capacitive Deionization ▶     Ahmad Amiri, Goodarz Ahmadi, Mehdi Shanbedi et al.     Capacitive deionization (CDI) is a promising procedure for removing various charged ionic species from brackish water. The performance of graphene-based material in capacitive …             Discovery of symbiotic nitrogen fixation and chemoautotrophy in cold-water corals ▶     Jack J. Middelburg, Christina E. Mueller, Bart Veuger et al.     Cold-water corals (CWC) are widely distributed around the world forming extensive reefs at par with tropical coral reefs. They are hotspots of biodiversity and organic matter …                 Nature Publishing Group offers a free open access funding support service to enable authors to discover and apply for article processing charge funding available to them. 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