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12 April 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports       Earth & Environmental Sciences               Global monsoon precipitation responses to large volcanic eruptions ▶     Fei Liu, Jing Chai, Bin Wang et al.     Climate variation of global monsoon (GM) precipitation involves both internal feedback and external forcing. Here, we focus on strong volcanic forcing since large eruptions are …             Effects of anthropogenic sound on digging behavior, metabolism, Ca2+/Mg2+ ATPase activity, and metabolism-related gene expression of the bivalve Sinonovacula constricta ▶     Chao Peng, Xinguo Zhao, Saixi Liu et al.     Anthropogenic sound has increased significantly in the past decade. However, only a few studies to date have investigated its effects on marine bivalves, with little known about …             Population Dynamics of Bulking and Foaming Bacteria in a Full-scale Wastewater Treatment Plant over Five Years ▶     Xiao-Tao Jiang, Feng Guo, Tong Zhang     Bulking and foaming are two notorious problems in activated sludge wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), which are mainly associated with the excessive growth of bulking and …             Real-time estimation of wildfire perimeters from curated crowdsourcing ▶     Xu Zhong, Matt Duckham, Derek Chong et al.     Real-time information about the spatial extents of evolving natural disasters, such as wildfire or flood perimeters, can assist both emergency responders and the general public …             135Cs activity and 135Cs/137Cs atom ratio in environmental samples before and after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident ▶     Guosheng Yang, Hirofumi Tazoe, Masatoshi Yamada     135Cs/137Cs is a potential tracer for radiocesium source identification. However, due to the challenge to measure 135Cs, there were no 135Cs data available for Japanese …             Vegetation and Cold Trapping Modulating Elevation-dependent Distribution of Trace Metals in Soils of a High Mountain in Eastern Tibetan Plateau ▶     Haijian Bing, Yanhong Wu, Jun Zhou et al.     Trace metals adsorbed onto fine particles can be transported long distances and ultimately deposited in Polar Regions via the cold condensation effect. This study indicated the …             An Adaptive Weighting Algorithm for Interpolating the Soil Potassium Content ▶     Wei Liu, Peijun Du, Zhuowen Zhao et al.     The concept of spatial interpolation is important in the soil sciences. However, the use of a single global interpolation model is often limited by certain conditions (e.g., …             A new dipole index of the salinity anomalies of the tropical Indian Ocean ▶     Junde Li, Chujin Liang, Youmin Tang et al.     With the increased interest in studying the sea surface salinity anomaly (SSSA) of the tropical Indian Ocean during the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), an index describing the dipole …             Altitudinal patterns and controls of plant and soil nutrient concentrations and stoichiometry in subtropical China ▶     Xianjin He, Enqing Hou, Yang Liu et al.     Altitude is a determining factor of ecosystem properties and processes in mountains. This study investigated the changes in the concentrations of carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and …             Management practices regulate the response of Moso bamboo foliar stoichiometry to nitrogen deposition ▶     Xinzhang Song, Honghao Gu, Meng Wang et al.     Moso bamboo, well known for its high growth rate, is being subjected to increasing amounts of nitrogen deposition. However, how anthropogenic management practices regulate the …             An insight in magnetic field enhanced zero-valent iron/H2O2 Fenton-like systems: Critical role and evolution of the pristine iron oxides layer ▶     Wei Xiang, Beiping Zhang, Tao Zhou et al.     This study demonstrated the synergistic degradation of 4-chlorophenol (4-CP) achieved in a magnetic field (MF) enhanced zero-valent iron (ZVI)/H2O2 Fenton-like (FL) system and …             Dynamics of 2013 Sudden Stratospheric Warming event and its impact on cold weather over Eurasia: Role of planetary wave reflection ▶     Debashis Nath, Wen Chen, Cai Zelin et al.     In the present study, we investigate the impact of stratospheric planetary wave reflection on tropospheric weather over Central Eurasia during the 2013 Sudden Stratospheric …             A novel approach for modelling vegetation distributions and analysing vegetation sensitivity through trait-climate relationships in China ▶     Yanzheng Yang, Qiuan Zhu, Changhui Peng et al.     Increasing evidence indicates that current dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) have suffered from insufficient realism and are difficult to improve, particularly because …             Flocculated meltwater particles control Arctic land-sea fluxes of labile iron ▶     Thor Nygaard Markussen, Bo Elberling, Christian Winter et al.     Glacial meltwater systems supply the Arctic coastal ocean with large volumes of sediment and potentially bioavailable forms of iron, nitrogen and carbon. The particulate fraction …             Strontium-90 activity concentration in soil samples from the exclusion zone of the Fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant ▶     Sarata Kumar Sahoo, Norbert Kavasi, Atsuyuki Sorimachi et al.     The radioactive fission product 90Sr has a long biological half-life (˜18 y) in the human body. Due to its chemical similarity to calcium it accumulates in bones and irradiates …             Seasonal heterogeneity of ocean warming: a mortality sink for ectotherm colonizers ▶     Fulvio Maffucci, Raffaele Corrado, Luigi Palatella et al.     Distribution shifts are a common adaptive response of marine ectotherms to climate change but the pace of redistribution depends on species-specific traits that may promote or …             Arctic foxes as ecosystem engineers: increased soil nutrients lead to increased plant productivity on fox dens ▶     Tazarve Gharajehdaghipour, James D. Roth, Paul M. Fafard et al.     Top predators can provide fundamental ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling, and their impact can be even greater in environments with low nutrients and productivity, such …             Predator-prey dynamics stabilised by nonlinearity explain oscillations in dust-forming plasmas ▶     A. E. Ross, D. R. McKenzie     Dust-forming plasmas are ionised gases that generate particles from a precursor. In nature, dust-forming plasmas are found in flames, the interstellar medium and comet tails. In …             Breeding Young as a Survival Strategy during Earth’s Greatest Mass Extinction ▶     Jennifer Botha-Brink, Daryl Codron, Adam K. Huttenlocker et al.     Studies of the effects of mass extinctions on ancient ecosystems have focused on changes in taxic diversity, morphological disparity, abundance, behaviour and resource …             90Sr in teeth of cattle abandoned in evacuation zone: Record of pollution from the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident ▶     Kazuma Koarai, Yasushi Kino, Atsushi Takahashi et al.     Here we determined the 90Sr concentrations in the teeth of cattle abandoned in the evacuation area of the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) accident. 90Sr activity …             Solar cycles or random processes? Evaluating solar variability in Holocene climate records ▶     T. Edward Turner, Graeme T. Swindles, Dan J. Charman et al.     Many studies have reported evidence for solar-forcing of Holocene climate change across a range of archives. These studies have compared proxy-climate data with records of solar …                       npj Pollution Control is a new open access journal and is now open for submissions. 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