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28 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               Mitigating wildfire carbon loss in managed northern peatlands through restoration ▶     Gustaf Granath, Paul A. Moore, Maxwell C. Lukenbach et al.     Northern peatlands can emit large amounts of carbon and harmful smoke pollution during a wildfire. Of particular concern are drained and mined peatlands, where management …             Planning for assisted colonization of plants in a warming world ▶     Alessandro Ferrarini, Alberto Selvaggi, Thomas Abeli et al.     Assisted colonization is one way of facilitating range shifts for species that are restricted in their ability to move in response to climate change. Here we conceptualize and …             Present-day uplift of the western Alps ▶     J.-M. Nocquet, C. Sue, A. Walpersdorf et al.     Collisional mountain belts grow as a consequence of continental plate convergence and eventually disappear under the combined effects of gravitational collapse and erosion. Using …             Urbanization affects neophilia and risk-taking at bird-feeders ▶     Piotr Tryjanowski, Anders Pape Møller, Federico Morelli et al.     Urban environments cover vast areas with a high density of humans and their dogs and cats causing problems for exploitation of new resources by wild animals. Such resources …             Corrigendum: Solar cycles or random processes? Evaluating solar variability in Holocene climate records ▶     T. Edward Turner, Graeme T. Swindles, Dan J. Charman et al.                 Insecticide resistance and nutrition interactively shape life-history parameters in German cockroaches ▶     Kim Jensen, Alexander E. Ko, Coby Schal et al.     Fitness-related costs of evolving insecticide resistance have been reported in a number of insect species, but the interplay between evolutionary adaptation to insecticide …             Dispersal similarly shapes both population genetics and community patterns in the marine realm ▶     Guillem Chust, Ernesto Villarino, Anne Chenuil et al.     Dispersal plays a key role to connect populations and, if limited, is one of the main processes to maintain and generate regional biodiversity. According to neutral theories of …             Physiological and molecular evidence of differential short-term heat tolerance in Mediterranean seagrasses ▶     Lazaro Marín-Guirao, Juan M. Ruiz, Emanuela Dattolo et al.     The increase in extreme heat events associated to global warming threatens seagrass ecosystems, likely by affecting key plant physiological processes such as photosynthesis and …             Severest crisis overlooked—Worst disruption of terrestrial environments postdates the Permian–Triassic mass extinction ▶     Peter A. Hochuli, Anna Sanson-Barrera, Elke Schneebeli-Hermann et al.     Generally Early Triassic floras are believed to be depauperate, suffering from protracted recovery following the Permian–Triassic extinction event. Here we present palynological …             A portable trap with electric lead catches up to 75% of an invasive fish species ▶     Nicholas S. Johnson, Scott Miehls, Lisa M. O’Connor et al.     A novel system combining a trap and pulsed direct current electricity was able to catch up to 75% of tagged invasive sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus in free-flowing streams. …             Biogas generation in anaerobic wastewater treatment under tetracycline antibiotic pressure ▶     Meiqing Lu, Xiaojun Niu, Wei Liu et al.     The effect of tetracycline (TC) antibiotic on biogas generation in anaerobic wastewater treatment was studied. A lab-scale Anaerobic Baffled Reactor (ABR) with three compartments …             Spatiotemporal Co-existence of Female Thyroid and Breast Cancers in Hangzhou, China ▶     Xufeng Fei, George Christakos, Zhaohan Lou et al.     Thyroid and breast cancers (TC, BC) are common female malignant tumors worldwide. Studies suggest that TC patients have a higher BC risk, and vice versa. However, it has not been …             Constructing Bi24O31Cl10/BiOCl heterojunction via a simple thermal annealing route for achieving enhanced photocatalytic activity and selectivity ▶     Xiaoyan Liu, Yiguo Su, Qihang Zhao et al.     This work reports on the construction of a Bi24O31Cl10/BiOCl heterojunction via a simple thermal annealing method. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) results indicated that the phase …             Responses of eastern Chinese coastal salt marshes to sea-level rise combined with vegetative and sedimentary processes ▶     Zhen-Ming Ge, Heng Wang, Hao-Bin Cao et al.     The impacts of sea-level rise (SLR) on coastal ecosystems have attracted worldwide attention in relation to global change. In this study, the salt marsh model for the Yangtze …             Responsiveness of soil nitrogen fractions and bacterial communities to afforestation in the Loess Hilly Region (LHR) of China ▶     Chengjie Ren, Pingsheng Sun, Di Kang et al.     In the present paper, we investigated the effects of afforestation on nitrogen fractions and microbial communities. A total of 24 soil samples were collected from farmland (FL) …             Health Benefits from Nature Experiences Depend on Dose ▶     Danielle F. Shanahan, Robert Bush, Kevin J. Gaston et al.     Nature within cities will have a central role in helping address key global public health challenges associated with urbanization. However, there is almost no guidance on how …             Concentrations of Radiocesium in Local Foods Collected in Kawauchi Village after the Accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station ▶     Makiko Orita, Kanami Nakashima, Naomi Hayashida et al.     We evaluated the current concentrations of radiocesium in local foods collected in Kawauchi Village, which is located less than 30 km from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power …             Molecular descriptor data explain market prices of a large commercial chemical compound library ▶     Jaroslaw Polanski, Urszula Kucia, Roksana Duszkiewicz et al.     The relationship between the structure and a property of a chemical compound is an essential concept in chemistry guiding, for example, drug design. Actually, however, we need …             Widespread ground motion distribution caused by rupture directivity during the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake ▶     Kazuki Koketsu, Hiroe Miyake, Yujia Guo et al.     The ground motion and damage caused by the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake can be characterized by their widespread distributions to the east. Evidence from strong ground motions, …             Quantitative Estimation of the Climatic Effects of Carbon Transferred by International Trade ▶     Ting Wei, Wenjie Dong, John Moore et al.     Carbon transfer via international trade affects the spatial pattern of global carbon emissions by redistributing emissions related to production of goods and services. It has …             Defining and quantifying the resilience of responses to disturbance: a conceptual and modelling approach from soil science ▶     L. C. Todman, F. C. Fraser, R. Corstanje et al.     There are several conceptual definitions of resilience pertaining to environmental systems and, even if resilience is clearly defined in a particular context, it is challenging …             Rapid, High-Resolution Forest Structure and Terrain Mapping over Large Areas using Single Photon Lidar ▶     Anu Swatantran, Hao Tang, Terence Barrett et al.     Single photon lidar (SPL) is an innovative technology for rapid forest structure and terrain characterization over large areas. Here, we evaluate data from an SPL instrument - …             Plastic-film mulching and urea types affect soil CO2 emissions and grain yield in spring maize on the Loess Plateau, China ▶     Qiaofei Liu, Yu Chen, Weiwei Li et al.     A 2-year field experiment was conducted on maize (Zea mays L.) to explore effective ways to decrease soil CO2 emissions and increase grain yield. Treatments established were: (1) …             Time-varying land subsidence detected by radar altimetry: California, Taiwan and north China ▶     Cheinway Hwang, Yuande Yang, Ricky Kao et al.     Contemporary applications of radar altimetry include sea-level rise, ocean circulation, marine gravity, and icesheet elevation change. Unlike InSAR and GNSS, which are widely …             The effects of nitrogen fertilization on N2O emissions from a rubber plantation ▶     Wen-Jun Zhou, Hong-li Ji, Jing Zhu et al.     To gain the effects of N fertilizer applications on N2O emissions and local climate change in fertilized rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) plantations in the tropics, we measured N2O …             Metal organic frameworks as sorption media for volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds at ambient conditions ▶     Kowsalya Vellingiri, Jan E. Szulejko, Pawan Kumar et al.     In this research, we investigated the sorptive behavior of a mixture of 14 volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (four aromatic hydrocarbons (benzene, toluene, p-xylene, …             Removal of trace metal contaminants from potable water by electrocoagulation ▶     Joe Heffron, Matt Marhefke, Brooke K. Mayer     This study investigated the effects of four operational and environmental variables on the removal of trace metal contaminants from drinking water by electrocoagulation (EC). …             Record dry summer in 2015 challenges precipitation projections in Central Europe ▶     René Orth, Jakob Zscheischler, Sonia I. Seneviratne     Central Europe was characterized by a humid-temperate climate in the 20th century. Climate change projections suggest that climate in this area will shift towards warmer …             Real world ocean rogue waves explained without the modulational instability ▶     Francesco Fedele, Joseph Brennan, Sonia Ponce de León et al.     Since the 1990s, the modulational instability has commonly been used to explain the occurrence of rogue waves that appear from nowhere in the open ocean. However, the importance …             Rice Domestication Revealed by Reduced Shattering of Archaeological rice from the Lower Yangtze valley ▶     Yunfei Zheng, Gary W. Crawford, Leping Jiang et al.     Plant remains dating to between 9000 and 8400 BP from a probable ditch structure at the Huxi site include the oldest rice (Oryza sativa) spikelet bases and associated plant …             Roots of forbs sense climate fluctuations in the semi-arid Loess Plateau: Herb-chronology based analysis ▶     Songlin Shi, Zongshan Li, Hao Wang et al.     Growth of herbaceous plants responds sensitively and rapidly to climate variability. Yet, little is known regarding how climate warming influences the growth of herbaceous …             Mechanochemical conversion of brominated POPs into useful oxybromides: a greener approach ▶     Giovanni Cagnetta, Han Liu, Kunlun Zhang et al.     Brominated organic pollutants are considered of great concern for their adverse effect on human health and the environment, so an increasing number of such compounds are being …                 • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoctoral Scholar     University of Chicago            Postdoctoral Research Assistants     University of Dundee            Research Associate     Imperial College London            Postdoctor     Karolinska Institutet (KI)            PostDoc (m / f)     Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht.            Postdoctoral Fellow     Dalhousie University            Postdoctoral fellow     Thomas Jefferson University (TJU)            Research Associate     University of Cambridge            Postdoctoral scholar     University of Calif, Los Angeles            Postdoctoral Research Fellow     Queen Mary University of London          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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