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21 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               Aging Will Amplify the Heat-related Mortality Risk under a Changing Climate: Projection for the Elderly in Beijing, China ▶     Tiantian Li, Radley M. Horton, Daniel A. Bader et al.     An aging population could substantially enhance the burden of heat-related health risks in a warming climate because of their higher susceptibility to extreme heat health …             Corrigendum: Internal exposure dynamics drive the Adverse Outcome Pathways of synthetic glucocorticoids in fish ▶     Luigi Margiotta-Casaluci, Stewart F. Owen, Belinda Huerta et al.                 A two-year field measurement of methane and nitrous oxide fluxes from rice paddies under contrasting climate conditions ▶     Huifeng Sun, Sheng Zhou, Zishi Fu et al.     The effects of three irrigation levels (traditional normal amount of irrigation [NA100%], 70%, and 30% of the normal amount [NA70% and NA30%]) and two rice varieties (Oryza sativa…             Near-trench slip potential of megaquakes evaluated from fault properties and conditions ▶     Tetsuro Hirono, Kenichi Tsuda, Wataru Tanikawa et al.     Near-trench slip during large megathrust earthquakes (megaquakes) is an important factor in the generation of destructive tsunamis. We proposed a new approach to assessing the …             Multi-targeted metagenetic analysis of the influence of climate and environmental parameters on soil microbial communities along an elevational gradient ▶     Anders Lanzén, Lur Epelde, Fernando Blanco et al.     Mountain elevation gradients are invaluable sites for understanding the effects of climate change on ecosystem function, community structure and distribution. However, relatively …             Metatranscriptomics reveals the molecular mechanism of large granule formation in granular anammox reactor ▶     Samik Bagchi, Regina Lamendella, Steven Strutt et al.     Granules enriched with anammox bacteria are essential in enhancing the treatment of ammonia-rich wastewater, but little is known about how anammox bacteria grow and multiply …             Kolumbo submarine volcano (Greece): An active window into the Aegean subduction system ▶     Andrea Luca Rizzo, Antonio Caracausi, Valèrie Chavagnac et al.     Submarine volcanism represents ~80% of the volcanic activity on Earth and is an important source of mantle-derived gases. These gases are of basic importance for the …             Microbial copper reduction method to scavenge anthropogenic radioiodine ▶     Seung Yeop Lee, Ji Young Lee, Je Ho Min et al.     Unexpected reactor accidents and radioisotope production and consumption have led to a continuous increase in the global-scale contamination of radionuclides. In particular, …             Community diversity, structure and carbon footprint of nematode food web following reforestation on degraded Karst soil ▶     Ning Hu, Hui Li, Zheng Tang et al.     We examined community diversity, structure and carbon footprint of nematode food web along a chronosequence of T. Sinensis reforestation on degraded Karst. In general, after the …             Identification of significant precursor gases of secondary organic aerosols from residential wood combustion ▶     Emily A. Bruns, Imad El Haddad, Jay G. Slowik et al.     Organic gases undergoing conversion to form secondary organic aerosol (SOA) during atmospheric aging are largely unidentified, particularly in regions influenced by anthropogenic …             Improvement of physical, chemical, and biological properties of aridisol from Botswana by the incorporation of torrefied biomass ▶     Tatsuki Ogura, Yasuhiro Date, Masego Masukujane et al.     Effective use of agricultural residual biomass may be beneficial for both local and global ecosystems. Recently, biochar has received attention as a soil enhancer, and its …             The evolution of genes encoding for green fluorescent proteins: insights from cephalochordates (amphioxus) ▶     Jia-Xing Yue, Nicholas D. Holland, Linda Z. Holland et al.     Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) was originally found in cnidarians, and later in copepods and cephalochordates (amphioxus) (Branchiostoma spp). Here, we looked for GFP-encoding …             The feeding habit of sea turtles influences their reaction to artificial marine debris ▶     Takuya Fukuoka, Misaki Yamane, Chihiro Kinoshita et al.     Ingestion of artificial debris is considered as a significant stress for wildlife including sea turtles. To investigate how turtles react to artificial debris under natural …             Influence of fullerene (C60) on soil bacterial communities: aqueous aggregate size and solvent co-introduction effects ▶     Zhong-Hua Tong, Marianne Bischoff, Loring F. Nies et al.     Fullerene C60 nanoparticles are being used in broad range of applications. It is important to assess their potential impacts in the environment. We evaluated the effects of C60 …             A relation to predict the failure of materials and potential application to volcanic eruptions and landslides ▶     Shengwang Hao, Chao Liu, Chunsheng Lu et al.     A theoretical explanation of a time-to-failure relation is presented, with this relationship then used to describe the failure of materials. This provides the potential to …             Shape and size constraints on dust optical properties from the Dome C ice core, Antarctica ▶     M. A. C. Potenza, S. Albani, B. Delmonte et al.     Mineral dust aerosol (dust) is widely recognized as a fundamental component of the climate system and is closely coupled with glacial-interglacial climate oscillations of the …             The colors of biomass burning aerosols in the atmosphere ▶     Chao Liu, Chul Eddy Chung, Feng Zhang et al.     Biomass burning aerosols mainly consist of black carbon (BC) and organic aerosols (OAs), and some of OAs are brown carbon (BrC). This study simulates the colors of BrC, BC and …             Monitoring tetracycline through a solid-state nanopore sensor ▶     Yuechuan Zhang, Yanling Chen, Yongqi Fu et al.     Antibiotics as emerging environmental contaminants, are widely used in both human and veterinary medicines. A solid-state nanopore sensing method is reported in this article to …             Nanostructural control of methane release in kerogen and its implications to wellbore production decline ▶     Tuan Anh Ho, Louise J. Criscenti, Yifeng Wang     Despite massive success of shale gas production in the US in the last few decades there are still major concerns with the steep decline in wellbore production and the large …             Continous application of bioorganic fertilizer induced resilient culturable bacteria community associated with banana Fusarium wilt suppression ▶     Lin Fu, Yunze Ruan, Chengyuan Tao et al.     Fusarium wilt of banana always drives farmers to find new land for banana cultivation due to the comeback of the disease after a few cropping years. A novel idea for solving this …             Dimethylmercury Formation Mediated by Inorganic and Organic Reduced Sulfur Surfaces ▶     Sofi Jonsson, Nashaat M. Mazrui, Robert P. Mason     Underlying formation pathways of dimethylmercury ((CH3)2Hg) in the ocean are unknown. Early work proposed reactions of inorganic Hg (HgII) with methyl cobalamin or of dissolved …             Nitrogen deposition and management practices increase soil microbial biomass carbon but decrease diversity in Moso bamboo plantations ▶     Quan Li, Xinzhang Song, Honghao Gu et al.     Because microbial communities play a key role in carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling, changes in the soil microbial community may directly affect ecosystem functioning. However, …             Treatment by glyphosate-based herbicide alters life history parameters of the rose-grain aphid Metopolophium dirhodum ▶     Pavel Saska, Jiří Skuhrovec, Jan Lukáš et al.     Glyphosate is the number one herbicide in the world. We investigated the sub-lethal effects of this herbicide on the aphid Metopolophium dirhodum (Walker), using an age-stage, …             Remotely-sensed detection of effects of extreme droughts on gross primary production ▶     Sara Vicca, Manuela Balzarolo, Iolanda Filella et al.     Severe droughts strongly impact photosynthesis (GPP), and satellite imagery has yet to demonstrate its ability to detect drought effects. Especially changes in vegetation …             A unique coral biomineralization pattern has resisted 40 million years of major ocean chemistry change ▶     Jarosław Stolarski, Francesca R. Bosellini, Carden C. Wallace et al.     Today coral reefs are threatened by changes to seawater conditions associated with rapid anthropogenic global climate change. Yet, since the Cenozoic, these organisms have …             Climate-driven C4 plant distributions in China: divergence in C4 taxa ▶     Renzhong Wang, Linna Ma     There have been debates on the driving factors of C4 plant expansion, such as PCO2 decline in the late Micocene and warmer climate and precipitation at large-scale modern …             Effect of desertification on productivity in a desert steppe ▶     Zhuangsheng Tang, Hui An, Lei Deng et al.     Desertification, one of the most severe types of land degradation in the world, is of great importance because it is occurring, to some degree, on approximately 40% of the global …                 • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Senior Scientist     The Allen Institute for Brain Science            Research Associate     The University of Sheffield            PhD Student Position     Georg-August-Universität Göttingen            Postdoctoral Researcher     Columbia University Medical Center            Research Fellow     University of Edinburgh            Staff Scientist     National Institutes of Health (NIH)            Group Leader     Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (IGFL)            Postdoctoral Fellow     The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)            Research Investigator     Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL)            Post Doctoral Position     University of Texas at El Paso          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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