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07 June 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Earth & Environmental Sciences               Quantitative volcanic susceptibility analysis of Lanzarote and Chinijo Islands based on kernel density estimation via a linear diffusion process ▶     I. Galindo, M. C. Romero, N. Sánchez et al.     Risk management stakeholders in high-populated volcanic islands should be provided with the latest high-quality volcanic information. We present here the first volcanic …             Exogenous N addition enhances the responses of gross primary productivity to individual precipitation events in a temperate grassland ▶     Qun Guo, Zhong-min Hu, Sheng-gong Li et al.     Predicted future shifts in the magnitude and frequency (larger but fewer) of precipitation events and enhanced nitrogen (N) deposition may interact to affect grassland …             Mangrove succession enriches the sediment microbial community in South China ▶     Quan Chen, Qian Zhao, Jing Li et al.     Sediment microorganisms help create and maintain mangrove ecosystems. Although the changes in vegetation during mangrove forest succession have been well studied, the changes in …             Microprofiling of nitrogen patches in paddy soil: Analysis of spatiotemporal nutrient heterogeneity at the microscale ▶     Yilin Li, Herbert J. Kronzucker, Weiming Shi     Flooded paddy soil ecosystems in the tropics support the cultivation of the majority of the world’s leading crop, rice, and nitrogen (N) availability in the paddy-soil rooting …             Metabolic rates of giant pandas inform conservation strategies ▶     Yuxiang Fei, Rong Hou, James R. Spotila et al.     The giant panda is an icon of conservation and survived a large-scale bamboo die off in the 1980s in China. Captive breeding programs have produced a large population in zoos and …             Salt Plug Formation Caused by Decreased River Discharge in a Multi-channel Estuary ▶     Dinesh Chandra Shaha, Yang-Ki Cho     Freshwater input to estuaries may be greatly altered by the river barrages required to meet human needs for drinking water and irrigation and prevent salt water intrusion. Prior …             A nonlinear controlling function of geological features on magmatic–hydrothermal mineralization ▶     Renguang Zuo     This paper reports a nonlinear controlling function of geological features on magmatic–hydrothermal mineralization, and proposes an alternative method to measure the spatial …             Reduced heterotrophy in the stony coral Galaxea fascicularis after life-long exposure to elevated carbon dioxide ▶     Joy N. Smith, Julia Strahl, Sam H. C. Noonan et al.     Ocean acidification imposes many physiological, energetic, structural and ecological challenges to stony corals. While some corals may increase autotrophy under ocean …             Resolving Fine-Scale Heterogeneity of Co-seismic Slip and the Relation to Fault Structure ▶     C. W. D. Milliner, C. Sammis, A. A. Allam et al.     Fault slip distributions provide important insight into the earthquake process. We analyze high-resolution along-strike co-seismic slip profiles of the 1992 Mw = 7.3 Landers and …             Effects of bioirrigation of non-biting midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) on lake sediment respiration ▶     Viktor Baranov, Jörg Lewandowski, Paul Romeijn et al.     Bioirrigation or the transport of fluids into the sediment matrix due to the activities of organisms such as bloodworms (larvae of Diptera, Chironomidae), has substantial impacts …             Differential effects of conifer and broadleaf litter inputs on soil organic carbon chemical composition through altered soil microbial community composition ▶     Hui Wang, Shi-Rong Liu, Jing-Xin Wang et al.     A strategic selection of tree species will shift the type and quality of litter input, and subsequently magnitude and composition of the soil organic carbon (SOC) through soil …             Modeling adsorption with lattice Boltzmann equation ▶     Long Guo, Lizhi Xiao, Xiaowen Shan et al.     The research of adsorption theory has recently gained renewed attention due to its critical relevance to a number of trending industrial applications, hydrogen storage and shale …             Changes in soil organic carbon in croplands subjected to fertilizer management: a global meta-analysis ▶     Pengfei Han, Wen Zhang, Guocheng Wang et al.     Cropland soil organic carbon (SOC) is undergoing substantial alterations due to both environmental and anthropogenic changes. Although numerous case studies have been conducted, …             Carbon isotope fractionation reveals distinct process of CH4 emission from different compartments of paddy ecosystem ▶     Guangbin Zhang, Haiyang Yu, Xianfang Fan et al.     Carbon isotopic fractionations in the processes of CH4 emission from paddy field remain poorly understood. The δ13C-values of CH4 in association with production, oxidation and …             Residual β activity of particulate 234Th as a novel proxy for tracking sediment resuspension in the ocean ▶     Wuhui Lin, Liqi Chen, Shi Zeng et al.     Sediment resuspension occurs in the global ocean, which greatly affects material exchange between the sediment and the overlying seawater. The behaviours of carbon, nutrients, …             Role of freeze-thaw cycles and chlorpyrifos insecticide use on diffuse Cd loss and sediment accumulation ▶     Fangli Wang, Wei Ouyang, Fanghua Hao et al.     Freeze-thaw cycles are predicted to increase in cold temperate regions. The potential influence of the interactions of freeze-thaw cycles and agrochemicals on the release of Cd …             How do changes in bulk soil organic carbon content affect carbon concentrations in individual soil particle fractions? ▶     X. M. Yang, C. F. Drury, W. D. Reynolds et al.     We test the common assumption that organic carbon (OC) storage occurs on sand-sized soil particles only after the OC storage capacity on silt- and clay-sized particles is …             Cooperation Survives and Cheating Pays in a Dynamic Network Structure with Unreliable Reputation ▶     Alberto Antonioni, Angel Sánchez, Marco Tomassini     In a networked society like ours, reputation is an indispensable tool to guide decisions about social or economic interactions with individuals otherwise unknown. Usually, …             Tracing the locality of prisoners and workers at the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang: First Emperor of China (259-210 BC) ▶     Ying Ma, Benjamin T. Fuller, Weigang Sun et al.     The mausoleum complex of the First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang (259-210 BC), is one of the most famous and important archaeological sites in China, yet questions remain as to …             High hydrostatic pressure adaptive strategies in an obligate piezophile Pyrococcus yayanosii ▶     Grégoire Michoud, Mohamed Jebbar     Pyrococcus yayanosii CH1, as the first and only obligate piezophilic hyperthermophilic microorganism discovered to date, extends the physical and chemical limits of life on …             Flexible Superhydrophobic and Superoleophilic MoS2 Sponge for Highly Efficient Oil-Water Separation ▶     Xiaojia Gao, Xiufeng Wang, Xiaoping Ouyang et al.     Removal of oils and organic solvents from water is an important global challenge for energy conservation and environmental protection. Advanced sorbent materials with excellent …             Defense pattern of Chinese cork oak across latitudinal gradients: influences of ontogeny, herbivory, climate and soil nutrients ▶     Xiao-Fei Wang, Jian-Feng Liu, Wen-Qiang Gao et al.     Knowledge of latitudinal patterns in plant defense and herbivory is crucial for understanding the mechanisms that govern ecosystem functioning and for predicting their responses …             Glacial melting: an overlooked threat to Antarctic krill ▶     Verónica Fuentes, Gastón Alurralde, Bettina Meyer et al.     Strandings of marine animals are relatively common in marine systems. However, the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. We observed mass strandings of krill in Antarctica …             Corrigendum: Direct Synthesis of Novel and Reactive Sulfide-modified Nano Iron through Nanoparticle Seeding for Improved Cadmium-Contaminated Water Treatment ▶     Yiming Su, Adeyemi S. Adeleye, Yuxiong Huang et al.                 Strong but diverging clonality - climate relationships of different plant clades explain weak overall pattern across China ▶     Duo Ye, Guofang Liu, Yao-Bin Song et al.     The clonal strategy should be relatively important in stressful environments (i.e. of low resource availability or harsh climate), e.g. in cold habitats. However, our …             Multi-model attribution of upper-ocean temperature changes using an isothermal approach ▶     Evan Weller, Seung-Ki Min, Matthew D. Palmer et al.     Both air-sea heat exchanges and changes in ocean advection have contributed to observed upper-ocean warming most evident in the late-twentieth century. However, it is …             Decreasing but still significant facilitation effect of cold-season macrophytes on wetlands purification function during cold winter ▶     Xiangxu Zou, Hui Zhang, Jie Zuo et al.     To identify the facilitation effect of a cool-season aquatic macrophyte (FEam) for use in effluent purification via constructed floating wetlands (CFWs) and to determine the …             Threatened by mining, polymetallic nodules are required to preserve abyssal epifauna ▶     Ann Vanreusel, Ana Hilario, Pedro A. Ribeiro et al.     Polymetallic nodule mining at abyssal depths in the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (Eastern Central Pacific) will impact one of the most remote and least known environments on …             Probing local and electronic structure in Warm Dense Matter: single pulse synchrotron x-ray absorption spectroscopy on shocked Fe ▶     Raffaella Torchio, Florent Occelli, Olivier Mathon et al.     Understanding Warm Dense Matter (WDM), the state of planetary interiors, is a new frontier in scientific research. There exists very little experimental data probing WDM states …             Dissolved Organic Carbon in the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ▶     Marcos Fontela, Maribel I. García-Ibáñez, Dennis A. Hansell et al.     The quantitative role of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) export is evaluated by combining DOC measurements with observed …             Fire carbon emissions over maritime southeast Asia in 2015 largest since 1997 ▶     V. Huijnen, M. J. Wooster, J. W. Kaiser et al.     In September and October 2015 widespread forest and peatland fires burned over large parts of maritime southeast Asia, most notably Indonesia, releasing large amounts of …             Spartina alterniflora invasion alters soil microbial community composition and microbial respiration following invasion chronosequence in a coastal wetland of China ▶     Wen Yang, Nasreen Jeelani, Xin Leng et al.     The role of exotic plants in regulating soil microbial community structure and activity following invasion chronosequence remains unclear. We investigated soil microbial …             Understanding cold bias: Variable response of skeletal Sr/Ca to seawater pCO2 in acclimated massive Porites corals ▶     Catherine Cole, Adrian Finch, Christopher Hintz et al.     Coral skeletal Sr/Ca is a palaeothermometer commonly used to produce high resolution seasonal sea surface temperature (SST) records and to investigate the amplitude and frequency …             Rapid formation and evolution of an extreme haze episode in Northern China during winter 2015 ▶     Yele Sun, Chen Chen, Yingjie Zhang et al.     We investigate the rapid formation and evolutionary mechanisms of an extremely severe and persistent haze episode that occurred in northern China during winter 2015 using …             Climatic change controls productivity variation in global grasslands ▶     Qingzhu Gao, Wenquan Zhu, Mark W. Schwartz et al.     Detection and identification of the impacts of climate change on ecosystems have been core issues in climate change research in recent years. In this study, we compared average …             An electric generator using living Torpedo electric organs controlled by fluid pressure-based alternative nervous systems ▶     Yo Tanaka, Shun-ichi Funano, Yohei Nishizawa et al.     Direct electric power generation using biological functions have become a research focus due to their low cost and cleanliness. Unlike major approaches using glucose fuels or …             Understory herb layer exerts strong controls on soil microbial communities in subtropical plantations ▶     Kai Yin, Lei Zhang, Dima Chen et al.     The patterns and drivers of soil microbial communities in forest plantations remain inadequate although they have been extensively studied in natural forest and grassland …             PPP Sliding Window Algorithm and Its Application in Deformation Monitoring ▶     Weiwei Song, Rui Zhang, Yibin Yao et al.     Compared with the double-difference relative positioning method, the precise point positioning (PPP) algorithm can avoid the selection of a static reference station and directly …                       npj Pollution Control is a new open access journal that is now open for submissions. 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