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16 August 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Earth & Environmental Sciences               Amperometric inhibitive biosensor based on horseradish peroxidase-nanoporous gold for sulfide determination ▶     Huihui Sun, Zhuang Liu, Chao Wu et al.     As a well-known toxic pollutant, sulfide is harmful to human health. In this study, a simple and sensitive amperometric inhibitive biosensor was developed for the determination …             Biosorption of Pb (II) from aqueous solution by extracellular polymeric substances extracted from Klebsiella sp. J1: Adsorption behavior and mechanism assessment ▶     Wei Wei, Qilin Wang, Ang Li et al.     The adsorption performance and mechanism of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) extracted from Klebsiella sp. J1 for soluble Pb (II) were investigated. The maximum …             An impaired metabolic response to hydrostatic pressure explains Alcanivorax borkumensis recorded distribution in the deep marine water column ▶     Alberto Scoma, Marta Barbato, Sara Borin et al.     Alcanivorax borkumensis is an ubiquitous model organism for hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria, which dominates polluted surface waters. Its negligible presence in oil-contaminated …             Increasing flash droughts over China during the recent global warming hiatus ▶     Linying Wang, Xing Yuan, Zhenghui Xie et al.     The recent global warming slowdown or hiatus after the big El Niño event in 1997/98 raises the questions of whether terrestrial hydrological cycle is being decelerated and how do …             The initial break-up of Pangæa elicited by Late Palæozoic deglaciation ▶     Meng-Wan Yeh, J. Gregory Shellnutt     The break-up of Pangæa was principally facilitated by tensional plate stress acting on pre-existing suture zones. The rifting of Pangæa began during the Early Permian along the …             Evidence of salt accumulation in beach intertidal zone due to evaporation ▶     Xiaolong Geng, Michel C. Boufadel, Nancy L. Jackson     In coastal environments, evaporation is an important driver of subsurface salinity gradients in marsh systems. However, it has not been addressed in the intertidal zone of sandy …             Immediate and delayed signal of slab breakoff in Oligo/Miocene Molasse deposits from the European Alps ▶     Fritz Schlunegger, Sébastien Castelltort     High-resolution 32–20 Ma-old stratigraphic records from the Molasse foreland basin situated north of the Alps, and Gonfolite Lombarda conglomerates deposited on the southern …             Performance comparison of MOF and other sorbent materials in removing key odorants emitted from pigpen slurry ▶     Ezaz Ahmed, Akash Deep, Eilhann E. Kwon et al.     A batch-type dynamic headspace (HS) system was used to generate vapor-phase volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from a pigpen slurry sample. Sorptive removal capability of MOF-199 …             Divergent habitat filtering of root and soil fungal communities in temperate beech forests ▶     Kezia Goldmann, Kristina Schröter, Rodica Pena et al.     Distance decay, the general reduction in similarity of community composition with increasing geographical distance, is known as predictor of spatial variation and distribution …             Social exclusion modulates priorities of attention allocation in cognitive control ▶     Mengsi Xu, Zhiai Li, Liuting Diao et al.     Many studies have investigated how exclusion affects cognitive control and have reported inconsistent results. However, these studies usually treated cognitive control as a …             Ozone/graphene oxide catalytic oxidation: a novel method to degrade emerging organic contaminant N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET) ▶     Jia-Nan Liu, Zhuo Chen, Qian-Yuan Wu et al.     N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET) is one of the important emerging contaminants that are being increasingly detected in reclaimed water as well as in drinking water sources. …             Clustered marginalization of minorities during social transitions induced by co-evolution of behaviour and network structure ▶     Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Jonathan F. Donges, Denis A. Engemann et al.     Large-scale transitions in societies are associated with both individual behavioural change and restructuring of the social network. These two factors have often been considered …             Effects of long-term continuous cropping on soil nematode community and soil condition associated with replant problem in strawberry habitat ▶     Xingyue Li, Edwin E. Lewis, Qizhi Liu et al.     Continuous cropping changes soil physiochemical parameters, enzymes and microorganism communities, causing “replant problem” in strawberry cultivation. We hypothesized that soil …             Worldwide impact of aerosol’s time scale on the predicted long-term concentrating solar power potential ▶     Jose A. Ruiz-Arias, Christian A. Gueymard, Francisco J. Santos-Alamillos et al.     Concentrating solar technologies, which are fuelled by the direct normal component of solar irradiance (DNI), are among the most promising solar technologies. Currently, the …             Southward autumn migration of waterfowl facilitates cross-continental transmission of the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus ▶     Yanjie Xu, Peng Gong, Ben Wielstra et al.     The highly pathogenic avian influenza subtype H5N1 (HPAI H5N1) is a worldwide zoonotic infectious disease, threatening humans, poultry and wild birds. The role of wild birds in …             Response of the Pacific inter-tropical convergence zone to global cooling and initiation of Antarctic glaciation across the Eocene Oligocene Transition ▶     Kiseong Hyeong, Junichiro Kuroda, Inah Seo et al.     Approximately 34 million years ago across the Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT), Earth’s climate tipped from a largely unglaciated state into one that sustained large ice sheets …             Is the detection of accelerated sea level rise imminent? ▶     J. T. Fasullo, R. S. Nerem, B. Hamlington     Global mean sea level rise estimated from satellite altimetry provides a strong constraint on climate variability and change and is expected to accelerate as the rates of both …             Crude oil exposures reveal roles for intracellular calcium cycling in haddock craniofacial and cardiac development ▶     Elin Sørhus, John P. Incardona, Ørjan Karlsen et al.     Recent studies have shown that crude oil exposure affects cardiac development in fish by disrupting excitation-contraction (EC) coupling. We previously found that eggs of …             Environmental NO2 and CO Exposure: Ignored Factors Associated with Uremic Pruritus in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis ▶     Wen-Hung Huang, Jui-Hsiang Lin, Cheng-Hao Weng et al.     Uremic pruritus (UP), also known as chronic kidney disease–associated pruritus, is a common and disabling symptom in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (MHD). The …             Unprecedented Disease-Related Coral Mortality in Southeastern Florida ▶     William F. Precht, Brooke E. Gintert, Martha L. Robbart et al.     Anomalously high water temperatures, associated with climate change, are increasing the global prevalence of coral bleaching, coral diseases, and coral-mortality events. Coral …             Enemies with benefits: parasitic endoliths protect mussels against heat stress ▶     G. I. Zardi, K. R. Nicastro, C. D. McQuaid et al.     Positive and negative aspects of species interactions can be context dependant and strongly affected by environmental conditions. We tested the hypothesis that, during periods of …             Environmental variables and definitive host distribution: a habitat suitability modelling for endohelminth parasites in the marine realm ▶     Thomas Kuhn, Sarah Cunze, Judith Kochmann et al.     Marine nematodes of the genus Anisakis are common parasites of a wide range of aquatic organisms. Public interest is primarily based on their importance as zoonotic agents of the …             Progress to extinction: increased specialisation causes the demise of animal clades ▶     P. Raia, F. Carotenuto, A. Mondanaro et al.     Animal clades tend to follow a predictable path of waxing and waning during their existence, regardless of their total species richness or geographic coverage. Clades begin small …             Entropy analysis of stable isotopes in precipitation: tracing the monsoon systems in China ▶     Tao Wang, Jiansheng Chen, Ling Li     Due to the complexity of monsoon systems and random behaviors of isotope tracers, conventional methods are not adequate for uncovering detailed information about monsoon …             Extremely heat tolerant photo-symbiosis in a shallow marine benthic foraminifera ▶     C. Schmidt, D. Titelboim, J. Brandt et al.     Bleaching, the loss of algal symbionts, occurs in marine photosymbiotic organisms at water temperatures minimally exceeding average summer SST (sea surface temperatures). …             Change in atmospheric deposition during last half century and its impact on lichen community structure in Eastern Himalaya ▶     Rajesh Bajpai, Seema Mishra, Sanjay Dwivedi et al.     Climatic fluctuations largely affects species turnover and cause major shifts of terrestrial ecosystem. In the present study the five decade old herbarium specimens of lichens …             Environmental selection of planktonic methanogens in permafrost thaw ponds ▶     Sophie Crevecoeur, Warwick F. Vincent, Connie Lovejoy     The warming and thermal erosion of ice-containing permafrost results in thaw ponds that are strong emitters of methane to the atmosphere. Here we examined methanogens and other …             Electron acceptor redox potential globally regulates transcriptomic profiling in Shewanella decolorationis S12 ▶     Yingli Lian, Yonggang Yang, Jun Guo et al.     Electron acceptor redox potential (EARP) was presumed to be a determining factor for microbial metabolism in many natural and engineered processes. However, little is known about …             High power laser-driven ceramic phosphor plate for outstanding efficient white light conversion in application of automotive lighting ▶     Young Hyun Song, Eun Kyung Ji, Byung Woo Jeong et al.     We report on Y3Al5O12: Ce3+ ceramic phosphor plate (CPP) using nano phosphor for high power laser diode (LD) application for white light in automotive lighting. The prepared CPP …             A Versatile and Scalable Approach toward Robust Superhydrophobic Porous Materials with Excellent Absorbency and Flame Retardancy ▶     Changping Ruan, Mengxia Shen, Xiaoyan Ren et al.     The frequent oil spillages and the industrial discharge of organic contaminants have not only created severe environmental and ecological crises, but also cause a risk of fire …             Homogenised daily lake surface water temperature data generated from multiple satellite sensors: A long-term case study of a large sub-Alpine lake ▶     Sajid Pareeth, Nico Salmaso, Rita Adrian et al.     Availability of remotely sensed multi-spectral images since the 1980’s, which cover three decades of voluminous data could help researchers to study the changing dynamics of …             Fabrication of Unique Magnetic Bionanocomposite for Highly Efficient Removal of Hexavalent Chromium from Water ▶     Yunlei Zhong, Xun Qiu, Dongyun Chen et al.     Biotreatment of hexavalent chromium has attracted widespread interest due to its cost effective and environmental friendliness. However, the difficult separation of biomass from …             Effects of race and sex on cerebral hemodynamics, oxygen delivery and blood flow distribution in response to high altitude ▶     Jie Liu, Yang Liu, Li-hua Ren et al.     To assess racial, sexual, and regional differences in cerebral hemodynamic response to high altitude (HA, 3658 m). 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