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17 May 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Earth & Environmental Sciences               High-pressure minerals in eucrite suggest a small source crater on Vesta ▶     Run-Lian Pang, Ai-Cheng Zhang, Shu-Zhou Wang et al.     High-pressure minerals in meteorites are important records of shock events that have affected the surfaces of planets and asteroids. A widespread distribution of impact craters …             High resolution study of the spatial distributions of abyssal fishes by autonomous underwater vehicle ▶     R. J. Milligan, K. J. Morris, B. J. Bett et al.     On abyssal plains, demersal fish are believed to play an important role in transferring energy across the seafloor and between the pelagic and benthic realms. However, little is …             Transcriptomic responses of the calanoid copepod Calanus finmarchicus to the saxitoxin producing dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense ▶     Vittoria Roncalli, Matthew C. Cieslak, Petra H. Lenz     In the Gulf of Maine, the copepod Calanus finmarchicus co-occurs with the neurotoxin-producing dinoflagellate, Alexandrium fundyense. The copepod is resistant to this toxic alga, …             Dynamic allocation and transfer of non-structural carbohydrates, a possible mechanism for the explosive growth of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys heterocycla) ▶     Xinzhang Song, Changhui Peng, Guomo Zhou et al.     Moso bamboo can rapidly complete its growth in both height and diameter within only 35–40 days after shoot emergence. However, the underlying mechanism for this “explosive …             Pteropod eggs released at high pCO2 lack resilience to ocean acidification ▶     Clara Manno, Victoria L. Peck, Geraint A. Tarling     The effects of ocean acidification (OA) on the early recruitment of pteropods in the Scotia Sea, was investigated considering the process of spawning, quality of the spawned eggs …             The developmental effects of pentachlorophenol on zebrafish embryos during segmentation: A systematic view ▶     Ting Xu, Jing Zhao, Zhifa Xu et al.     Pentachlorophenol (PCP) is a typical toxicant and prevailing pollutant whose toxicity has been broadly investigated. However, previous studies did not specifically investigate …             Identifying local-scale wilderness for on-ground conservation actions within a global biodiversity hotspot ▶     Shiwei Lin, Ruidong Wu, Chaolang Hua et al.     Protecting wilderness areas (WAs) is a crucial proactive approach to sustain biodiversity. However, studies identifying local-scale WAs for on-ground conservation efforts are …             Enhanced adsorptive removal of p-nitrophenol from water by aluminum metal–organic framework/reduced graphene oxide composite ▶     Zhibin Wu, Xingzhong Yuan, Hua Zhong et al.     In this study, the composite of aluminum metal–organic framework MIL-68(Al) and reduced graphene oxide (MA/RG) was synthesized via a one–step solvothermal method, and their …             An integrated soil-crop system model for water and nitrogen management in North China ▶     Hao Liang, Kelin Hu, William D. Batchelor et al.     An integrated model WHCNS (soil Water Heat Carbon Nitrogen Simulator) was developed to assess water and nitrogen (N) management in North China. It included five main modules: …             A persistent northern boundary of Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation over Central Asia during the Holocene ▶     Arne Ramisch, Gregori Lockot, Torsten Haberzettl et al.     Extra-tropical circulation systems impede poleward moisture advection by the Indian Summer Monsoon. In this context, the Himalayan range is believed to insulate the south Asian …             Simulated coal spill causes mortality and growth inhibition in tropical marine organisms ▶     Kathryn L. E. Berry, Mia O. Hoogenboom, Florita Flores et al.     Coal is a principal fossil fuel driving economic and social development, and increases in global coal shipments have paralleled expansion of the industry. To identify the …             Coldest Temperature Extreme Monotonically Increased and Hottest Extreme Oscillated over Northern Hemisphere Land during Last 114 Years ▶     Chunlüe Zhou, Kaicun Wang     Most studies on global warming rely on global mean surface temperature, whose change is jointly determined by anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) and natural variability. This …             Abrupt sand-dune accumulation at the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau challenges the wet MIS3a inferred from numerous lake-highstands ▶     Hao Long, Markus Fuchs, Linhai Yang et al.     Over the Tibetan Plateau and adjacent regions, numerous 14C-based lake records revealed a ubiquitous wet climatic period during 40–25 ka (late MIS 3), which is in contradiction …             Germination biology of Hibiscus tridactylites in Australia and the implications for weed management ▶     Bhagirath Singh Chauhan     Hibiscus tridactylites is a problematic broadleaf weed in many crops in Australia; however, very limited information is available on seed germination biology of Australian …             Gene expression patterns of two dominant tallgrass prairie species differ in response to warming and altered precipitation ▶     Melinda D. Smith, Ava M. Hoffman, Meghan L. Avolio     To better understand the mechanisms underlying plant species responses to climate change, we compared transcriptional profiles of the co-dominant C4 grasses, Andropogon gerardii …             Pristine mangrove creek waters are a sink of nitrous oxide ▶     Damien T. Maher, James Z. Sippo, Douglas R. Tait et al.     Nitrous oxide (N2O) is an important greenhouse gas, but large uncertainties remain in global budgets. Mangroves are thought to be a source of N2O to the atmosphere in spite of …             Bacterial and archaeal communities in the deep-sea sediments of inactive hydrothermal vents in the Southwest India Ridge ▶     Likui Zhang, Manyu Kang, Jiajun Xu et al.     Active deep-sea hydrothermal vents harbor abundant thermophilic and hyperthermophilic microorganisms. However, microbial communities in inactive hydrothermal vents have not been …             Soil pH, total phosphorus, climate and distance are the major factors influencing microbial activity at a regional spatial scale ▶     Haichuan Cao, Ruirui Chen, Libing Wang et al.     Considering the extensive functional redundancy in microbial communities and great difficulty in elucidating it based on taxonomic structure, studies on the biogeography of soil …             Electricity and disinfectant production from wastewater: Microbial Fuel Cell as a self-powered electrolyser ▶     Iwona Gajda, John Greenman, Chris Melhuish et al.     This study presents a simple and sustainable Microbial Fuel Cell as a standalone, self-powered reactor for in situ wastewater electrolysis, recovering nitrogen from wastewater. A …             A new method to manipulate broiler chicken growth and metabolism: Response to mixed LED light system ▶     Yefeng Yang, Yonghua Yu, Jinming Pan et al.     Present study introduced a new method to manipulate broiler chicken growth and metabolism by mixing the growth-advantage LED. We found that the green/blue LED mixed light system …             Control factors and scale analysis of annual river water, sediments and carbon transport in China ▶     Chunlin Song, Genxu Wang, Xiangyang Sun et al.     Under the context of dramatic human disturbances on river system, the processes that control the transport of water, sediment, and carbon from river basins to coastal seas are …             Linking magmatism with collision in an accretionary orogen ▶     Shan Li, Sun-Lin Chung, Simon A. Wilde et al.     A compilation of U-Pb age, geochemical and isotopic data for granitoid plutons in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), enables evaluation of the interaction between …             Effects of Metal Nanoparticles on Methane Production from Waste-Activated Sludge and Microorganism Community Shift in Anaerobic Granular Sludge ▶     Tao Wang, Dong Zhang, Lingling Dai et al.     Extensive use of nanoparticles (NPs) in consumer and industrial products has led to concerns about their potential environmental impacts; however, the influences of different NPs …             Nanoparticle fouling and its combination with organic fouling during forward osmosis process for silver nanoparticles removal from simulated wastewater ▶     Yanxiao Zhao, Xinhua Wang, Zhiwei Wang et al.     The increasing and wide application of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) has resulted in their appearance in wastewater. In consideration of their potential toxicity and …             Possible scenarios for occurrence of M ~ 7 interplate earthquakes prior to and following the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake based on numerical simulation ▶     Ryoko Nakata, Takane Hori, Mamoru Hyodo et al.     We show possible scenarios for the occurrence of M ~ 7 interplate earthquakes prior to and following the M ~ 9 earthquake along the Japan Trench, such as the 2011 Tohoku-Oki …             Cinema audiences reproducibly vary the chemical composition of air during films, by broadcasting scene specific emissions on breath ▶     Jonathan Williams, Christof Stönner, Jörg Wicker et al.     Human beings continuously emit chemicals into the air by breath and through the skin. In order to determine whether these emissions vary predictably in response to audiovisual …             Novel European free-living, non-diazotrophic Bradyrhizobium isolates from contrasting soils that lack nodulation and nitrogen fixation genes – a genome comparison ▶     Frances Patricia Jones, Ian M. Clark, Robert King et al.     The slow-growing genus Bradyrhizobium is biologically important in soils, with different representatives found to perform a range of biochemical functions including …             Efficient Photocatalytic Disinfection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 using C70-TiO2 Hybrid under Visible Light Irradiation ▶     Kai Ouyang, Ke Dai, Sharon L. Walker et al.     Efficient photocatalytic disinfection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 was achieved by using a C70 modified TiO2 (C70-TiO2) hybrid as a photocatalyst under visible light (λ > 420 nm) …             Involvement of microbial mats in early fossilization by decay delay and formation of impressions and replicas of vertebrates and invertebrates ▶     Miguel Iniesto, Ángela D. Buscalioni, M. Carmen Guerrero et al.     Microbial mats have been hypothesized to improve the persistence and the preservation of organic remains during fossilization processes. 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