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19 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               In situ, high-resolution evidence for iron-coupled mobilization of phosphorus in sediments ▶     Shiming Ding, Yan Wang, Dan Wang et al.     Reductive dissolution of phosphorus-bearing iron (Fe) (oxyhydr)oxides has been regarded as a primary mechanism responsible for the mobilization of phosphorus (P) in sediments for …             A new nano-engineered hierarchical membrane for concurrent removal of surfactant and oil from oil-in-water nanoemulsion ▶     Detao Qin, Zhaoyang Liu, Hongwei Bai et al.     Surfactant stabilized oil-in-water nanoemulsions pose a severe threat to both the environment and human health. Recent development of membrane filtration technology has enabled …             Soil radon measurements as a potential tracer of tectonic and volcanic activity ▶     Marco Neri, Elisabetta Ferrera, Salvatore Giammanco et al.     In Earth Sciences there is a growing interest in studies concerning soil-radon activity, due to its potential as a tracer of numerous natural phenomena. Our work marks an advance …             Anatomy of Indian heatwaves ▶     J. V. Ratnam, Swadhin K. Behera, Satyaban B. Ratna et al.     India suffers from major heatwaves during March-June. The rising trend of number of intense heatwaves in recent decades has been vaguely attributed to global warming. Since the …             Soil ionomic and enzymatic responses and correlations to fertilizations amended with and without organic fertilizer in long-term experiments ▶     Xumeng Feng, Ning Ling, Huan Chen et al.     To investigate potential interactions between the soil ionome and enzyme activities affected by fertilization with or without organic fertilizer, soil samples were collected from …             Application of 3-D Urbanization Index to Assess Impact of Urbanization on Air Temperature ▶     Chih-Da Wu, Shih-Chun Candice Lung     The lack of appropriate methodologies and indicators to quantify three-dimensional (3-D) building constructions poses challenges to authorities and urban planners when …             The dynamics of carbon stored in xylem sapwood to drought-induced hydraulic stress in mature trees ▶     Kenichi Yoshimura, Shin-Taro Saiki, Kenichi Yazaki et al.     Climate-induced forest die-off is widespread in multiple biomes, strongly affecting the species composition, function and primary production in forest ecosystems. Hydraulic …             Ciliate Paramecium is a natural reservoir of Legionella pneumophila ▶     Kenta Watanabe, Ryo Nakao, Masahiro Fujishima et al.     Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires’ disease, replicates within alveolar macrophages and free-living amoebae. However, the lifestyle of L. pneumophila in …             Catechol degradation on hematite/silica–gas interface as affected by gas composition and the formation of environmentally persistent free radicals ▶     Hao Li, Huiying Guo, Bo Pan et al.     Environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) formed on a solid particle surface have received increasing attention because of their toxic effects. However, organic chemical …             Unearthing microbial diversity of Taxus rhizosphere via MiSeq high-throughput amplicon sequencing and isolate characterization ▶     Da Cheng Hao, Si Meng Song, Jun Mu et al.     The species variability and potential environmental functions of Taxus rhizosphere microbial community were studied by comparative analyses of 15 16S rRNA and 15 ITS MiSeq …             Have GRACE satellites overestimated groundwater depletion in the Northwest India Aquifer? ▶     Di Long, Xi Chen, Bridget R. Scanlon et al.     The Northwest India Aquifer (NWIA) has been shown to have the highest groundwater depletion (GWD) rate globally, threatening crop production and sustainability of groundwater …             Persistent and energetic bottom-trapped topographic Rossby waves observed in the southern South China Sea ▶     Yeqiang Shu, Huijie Xue, Dongxiao Wang et al.     Energetic fluctuations with periods of 9–14 days below a depth of 1400 m were observed in the southern South China Sea (SCS) from 5 years of direct measurements. We interpreted …             Fractionation of Stable Cadmium Isotopes in the Cadmium Tolerant Ricinus communis and Hyperaccumulator Solanum nigrum ▶     Rongfei Wei, Qingjun Guo, Hanjie Wen et al.     Cadmium (Cd) isotopes provide new insights into Cd uptake, transport and storage mechanisms in plants. Therefore, the present study adopted the Cd-tolerant Ricinus communis and …             Characterization and parameterization of aerosol cloud condensation nuclei activation under different pollution conditions ▶     H. C. Che, X. Y. Zhang, Y. Q. Wang et al.     To better understand the cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activation capacity of aerosol particles in different pollution conditions, a long-term field experiment was carried out …             Mineral dust aerosols promote the formation of toxic nitropolycyclic aromatic compounds ▶     Takayuki Kameda, Eri Azumi, Aki Fukushima et al.     Atmospheric nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (NPAHs), which have been shown to have adverse health effects such as carcinogenicity, are formed in part through nitration …             Burrowing hard corals occurring on the sea floor since 80 million years ago ▶     Asuka Sentoku, Yuki Tokuda, Yoichi Ezaki     We describe a previously unknown niche for hard corals in the small, bowl-shaped, solitary scleractinian, Deltocyathoides orientalis (Family Turbinoliidae), on soft-bottom …             Observed 3D Structure, Generation, and Dissipation of Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies in the South China Sea ▶     Zhiwei Zhang, Jiwei Tian, Bo Qiu et al.     Oceanic mesoscale eddies with horizontal scales of 50–300 km are the most energetic form of flows in the ocean. They are the oceanic analogues of atmospheric storms and are …             Planktonic events may cause polymictic-dimictic regime shifts in temperate lakes ▶     Tom Shatwell, Rita Adrian, Georgiy Kirillin     Water transparency affects the thermal structure of lakes, and within certain lake depth ranges, it can determine whether a lake mixes regularly (polymictic regime) or stratifies …             Corrigendum: Nanoparticles Based on Chitosan as Carriers for the Combined Herbicides Imazapic and Imazapyr ▶     Cintia Rodrigues Maruyama, Mariana Guilger, Mônica Pascoli et al.                 Climate variability rather than overstocking causes recent large scale cover changes of Tibetan pastures ▶     L. W. Lehnert, K. Wesche, K. Trachte et al.     The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is a globally important “water tower” that provides water for nearly 40% of the world’s population. This supply function is claimed to be threatened by …             Corrigendum: Metabolomics reveals metabolic changes in male reproductive cells exposed to thirdhand smoke ▶     Bo Xu, Minjian Chen, Mengmeng Yao et al.                 Gardening in the zone of death: an experimental assessment of the absolute elevation limit of vascular plants ▶     Miroslav Dvorský, Zuzana Chlumská, Jan Altman et al.     Vascular plants in the western Tibetan Plateau reach 6000 m-the highest elevation on Earth. Due to the significant warming of the region, plant ranges are expected to shift …             Identification of pesticide varieties by testing microalgae using Visible/Near Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging technology ▶     Yongni Shao, Linjun Jiang, Hong Zhou et al.     In our study, the feasibility of using visible/near infrared hyperspectral imaging technology to detect the changes of the internal components of Chlorella pyrenoidosa so as to …             Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales ▶     Gayatri Kathayat, Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha et al.     The Indian summer monsoon (ISM) monsoon is critical to billions of people living in the region. Yet, significant debates remain on primary ISM drivers on millennial-orbital …             Testing the island effect on phenotypic diversification: insights from the Hemidactylus geckos of the Socotra Archipelago ▶     Joan Garcia-Porta, Jiří Šmíd, Daniel Sol et al.     Island colonization is often assumed to trigger extreme levels of phenotypic diversification. Yet, empirical evidence suggests that it does not always so. In this study we test …             Quantifying the Anthropogenic Footprint in Eastern China ▶     Chunlei Meng, Youjun Dou     Urban heat island (UHI) is one of the most focuses in urban climate study. The parameterization of the anthropogenic heat (AH) is crucial important in UHI study, but universal …             Aflatoxin B1 contamination in maize in Europe increases due to climate change ▶     P. Battilani, P. Toscano, H. J. Van der Fels-Klerx et al.     Climate change has been reported as a driver for emerging food and feed safety issues worldwide and its expected impact on the presence of mycotoxins in food and feed is of great …             Beyond eruptive scenarios: assessing tephra fallout hazard from Neapolitan volcanoes ▶     Laura Sandri, Antonio Costa, Jacopo Selva et al.     Assessment of volcanic hazards is necessary for risk mitigation. Typically, hazard assessment is based on one or a few, subjectively chosen representative eruptive scenarios, …             Uncertainty assessment of PM2.5 contamination mapping using spatiotemporal sequential indicator simulations and multi-temporal monitoring data ▶     Yong Yang, George Christakos, Wei Huang et al.     Because of the rapid economic growth in China, many regions are subjected to severe particulate matter pollution. 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