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19 January 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Mechanistic understanding of MeHg-Se antagonism in soil-rice systems: the key role of antagonism in soil ▶     Yongjie Wang, Fei Dang, R. Douglas Evans et al.     Methylmercury (MeHg) accumulation in rice has great implications for human health. Here, effects of selenium (Se) on MeHg availability to rice are explored by growing rice under …             Surface–Atmosphere Moisture Interactions in the Frozen Ground Regions of Eurasia ▶     Trent W. Ford, Oliver W. Frauenfeld     Climate models simulate an intensifying Arctic hydrologic cycle in response to climatic warming, however the role of surface-atmosphere interactions from degrading frozen ground …             Global nitrogen budgets in cereals: A 50-year assessment for maize, rice, and wheat production systems ▶     J. K. Ladha, A. Tirol-Padre, C. K. Reddy et al.     Industrially produced N-fertilizer is essential to the production of cereals that supports current and projected human populations. We constructed a top-down global N budget for …             Food supply confers calcifiers resistance to ocean acidification ▶     Laura Ramajo, Elia Pérez-León, Iris E. Hendriks et al.     Invasion of ocean surface waters by anthropogenic CO2 emitted to the atmosphere is expected to reduce surface seawater pH to 7.8 by the end of this century compromising marine …             An integrated Pan-European perspective on coastal Lagoons management through a mosaic-DPSIR approach ▶     Marina Dolbeth, Per Stålnacke, Fátima L. Alves et al.     A decision support framework for the management of lagoon ecosystems was tested using four European Lagoons: Ria de Aveiro (Portugal), Mar Menor (Spain), Tyligulskyi Liman (Uk…             The relationship of spectral sensitivity with growth and reproductive response in avian breeders (Gallus gallus) ▶     Ye-Feng Yang, Jing-Song Jiang, Jin-Ming Pan et al.     A previous study demonstrated that birds that are exposed to light at night develop advanced reproductive systems. However, spectrum might also affect the photoperiodic response …             Revisiting the concept of a symmetric index of agreement for continuous datasets ▶     Gregory Duveiller, Dominique Fasbender, Michele Meroni     Quantifying how close two datasets are to each other is a common and necessary undertaking in scientific research. The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient r is a …             Phytoliths reveal the earliest fine reedy textile in China at the Tianluoshan site ▶     Jianping Zhang, Houyuan Lu, Guoping Sun et al.     Textiles are among the longest and most widespread technologies in human history, although poor preservation of perishable artifacts in Paleolithic and Neolithic contexts makes …             Larval cases of caddisfly (Insecta: Trichoptera) affinity in Early Permian marine environments of Gondwana ▶     Lucas D. Mouro, Michał Zatoń, Antonio C.S. Fernandes et al.     Caddisflies (Trichoptera) are small, cosmopolitan insects closely related to the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). Most caddisflies construct protective cases during their …             PCB pollution continues to impact populations of orcas and other dolphins in European waters ▶     Paul D. Jepson, Rob Deaville, Jonathan L. Barber et al.     Organochlorine (OC) pesticides and the more persistent polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have well-established dose-dependent toxicities to birds, fish and mammals in experimental …             Critical carbon input to maintain current soil organic carbon stocks in global wheat systems ▶     Guocheng Wang, Zhongkui Luo, Pengfei Han et al.     Soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics in croplands is a crucial component of global carbon (C) cycle. Depending on local environmental conditions and management practices, typical C …             A graphene oxide/amidoxime hydrogel for enhanced uranium capture ▶     Feihong Wang, Hongpeng Li, Qi Liu et al.     The efficient development of selective materials for the recovery of uranium from nuclear waste and seawater is necessary for their potential application in nuclear fuel and the …             Fractal density and singularity analysis of heat flow over ocean ridges ▶     Cheng Qiuming     Peak heat flow occurs at mid-ocean ridges and decreases with the age of the oceanic lithosphere. Several plate models, including the Parsons and Sclater (PSM) model, Global Depth …             Venturing in coral larval chimerism: a compact functional domain with fostered genotypic diversity ▶     Baruch Rinkevich, Lee Shaish, Jacob Douek et al.     The globally distributed coral species Pocillopora damicornis is known to release either sexual or asexual derived planula-larvae in various reef locations. Using microsatellite …             Levels of maternal care in dogs affect adult offspring temperament ▶     Pernilla Foyer, Erik Wilsson, Per Jensen     Dog puppies are born in a state of large neural immaturity; therefore, the nervous system is sensitive to environmental influences early in life. In primates and rodents, early …             Assessing the toxicity of Pb- and Sn-based perovskite solar cells in model organism Danio rerio ▶     Aslihan Babayigit, Dinh Duy Thanh, Anitha Ethirajan et al.     Intensive development of organometal halide perovskite solar cells has lead to a dramatic surge in power conversion efficiency up to 20%. Unfortunately, the most efficient …             Metabolic traits of an uncultured archaeal lineage -MSBL1- from brine pools of the Red Sea ▶     Romano Mwirichia, Intikhab Alam, Mamoon Rashid et al.     The candidate Division MSBL1 (Mediterranean Sea Brine Lakes 1) comprises a monophyletic group of uncultured archaea found in different hypersaline environments. Previous studies …             Seismology-based early identification of dam-formation landquake events ▶     Wei-An Chao, Li Zhao, Su-Chin Chen et al.     Flooding resulting from the bursting of dams formed by landquake events such as rock avalanches, landslides and debris flows can lead to serious bank erosion and inundation of …             Locating single-point sources from arrival times containing large picking errors (LPEs): the virtual field optimization method (VFOM) ▶     Xi-Bing Li, Ze-Wei Wang, Long-Jun Dong     Microseismic monitoring systems using local location techniques tend to be timely, automatic and stable. One basic requirement of these systems is the automatic picking of …             Enhanced air pollution via aerosol-boundary layer feedback in China ▶     T. Petäjä, L. Järvi, V.-M. Kerminen et al.     Severe air pollution episodes have been frequent in China during the recent years. While high emissions are the primary reason for increasing pollutant concentrations, the …             Evidence of high-elevation amplification versus Arctic amplification ▶     Qixiang Wang, Xiaohui Fan, Mengben Wang     Elevation-dependent warming in high-elevation regions and Arctic amplification are of tremendous interest to many scientists who are engaged in studies in climate change. Here, …             Hierarchical Sheet-on-Sheet ZnIn2S4/g-C3N4 Heterostructure with Highly Efficient Photocatalytic H2 production Based on Photoinduced Interfacial Charge Transfer ▶     Zhenyi Zhang, Kuichao Liu, Zhiqing Feng et al.     We have realized in-situ growth of ultrathin ZnIn2S4 nanosheets on the sheet-like g-C3N4 surfaces to construct a “sheet-on-sheet” hierarchical heterostructure. The as-synthesized …             The Effects of Weather Factors on Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease in Beijing ▶     Weihua Dong, Xian’en Li, Peng Yang et al.     The morbidity and mortality of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) are increasing in Beijing, China. Previous studies have indicated an association between incidents of HFMD and …             Impact of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on population size and genetic structure of horse flies in Louisiana marshes ▶     Claudia Husseneder, Jennifer R. Donaldson, Lane D. Foil     The greenhead horse fly, Tabanus nigrovittatus Macquart, is frequently found in coastal marshes of the Eastern United States. 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