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23 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               Hornblendite delineates zones of mass transfer through the lower crust ▶     Nathan R. Daczko, Sandra Piazolo, Uvana Meek et al.     Geochemical signatures throughout the layered Earth require significant mass transfer through the lower crust, yet geological pathways are under-recognized. Elongate bodies of …             Rainfall-enhanced blooming in typhoon wakes ▶     Y.-C. Lin, L.-Y. Oey     Strong phytoplankton blooming in tropical-cyclone (TC) wakes over the oligotrophic oceans potentially contributes to long-term changes in global biogeochemical cycles. Yet …             Dynamics of changing impacts of tropical Indo-Pacific variability on Indian and Australian rainfall ▶     Ziguang Li, Wenju Cai, Xiaopei Lin     A positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and a warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) reduce rainfall over the Indian subcontinent and southern Australia. However, …             Utilization of 134Cs/137Cs in the environment to identify the reactor units that caused atmospheric releases during the Fukushima Daiichi accident ▶     Masamichi Chino, Hiroaki Terada, Haruyasu Nagai et al.     The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactor units that generated large amounts of airborne discharges during the period of March 12–21, 2011 were identified individually by …             BDE47 induces rat CYP3A1 by targeting the transcriptional regulation of miR-23b ▶     Zhenzhen Sun, Zhan Zhang, Minghui Ji et al.     Cytochrome P450 3A (CYP3A) is the most abundant CYP450 enzyme in the liver and is involved in the metabolism of over 50% of xenobiotics. Our previous studies revealed that …             Combining endangered plants and animals as surrogates to identify priority conservation areas in Yunnan, China ▶     Feiling Yang, Jinming Hu, Ruidong Wu     Suitable surrogates are critical for identifying optimal priority conservation areas (PCAs) to protect regional biodiversity. This study explored the efficiency of using …             Desert Amplification in a Warming Climate ▶     Liming Zhou     Here I analyze the observed and projected surface temperature anomalies over land between 50°S-50°N for the period 1950–2099 by large-scale ecoregion and find strongest warming …             A comparison of zircon U-Pb age results of the Red Clay sequence on the central Chinese Loess Plateau ▶     Hujun Gong, Junsheng Nie, Zhao Wang et al.     Single grain zircon U-Pb geochronology has demonstrated great potentials in extracting tectonic and atmospheric circulation signal carried by aeolian, fluvial, and …             Simulated leakage of high pCO2 water negatively impacts bivalve dominated infaunal communities from the Western Baltic Sea ▶     Hanna Schade, Lisa Mevenkamp, Katja Guilini et al.     Carbon capture and storage is promoted as a mitigation method counteracting the increase of atmospheric CO2 levels. However, at this stage, environmental consequences of …             Organotypic culture in three dimensions prevents radiation-induced transformation in human lung epithelial cells ▶     Mariam El-Ashmawy, Melissa Coquelin, Krishna Luitel et al.     The effects of radiation in two-dimensional (2D) cell culture conditions may not recapitulate tissue responses as modeled in three-dimensional (3D) organotypic culture. In this …             Ichnological evidence of Megalosaurid Dinosaurs Crossing Middle Jurassic Tidal Flats ▶     Novella L. Razzolini, Oriol Oms, Diego Castanera et al.     A new dinosaur tracksite in the Vale de Meios quarry (Serra de Aire Formation, Bathonian, Portugal)preserves more than 700 theropod tracks. They are organized in at least 80 …             Forest roadsides harbour less competitive habitats for a relict mountain plant (Pulsatilla vernalis) in lowlands ▶     Katarzyna M. Zielińska, Marcin Kiedrzyński, Andrzej Grzyl et al.     The long-term survival of relict populations depends on the accessibility of appropriate sites (microrefugia). In recent times, due to the mass extinction of rare species that …             Statistical clumped isotope signatures ▶     T. Röckmann, M. E. Popa, M. C. Krol et al.     High precision measurements of molecules containing more than one heavy isotope may provide novel constraints on element cycles in nature. These so-called clumped isotope …             Traffic noise reduces foraging efficiency in wild owls ▶     Masayuki Senzaki, Yuichi Yamaura, Clinton D. Francis et al.     Anthropogenic noise has been increasing globally. Laboratory experiments suggest that noise disrupts foraging behavior across a range of species, but to reveal the full impacts …             Adsorption of Antibiotics on Graphene and Biochar in Aqueous Solutions Induced by π-π Interactions ▶     Bingquan Peng, Liang Chen, Chenjing Que et al.     The use of carbon based materials on the removal of antibiotics with high concentrations has been well studied, however the effect of this removal method is not clear on the …             Limited phosphorus availability is the Achilles heel of tropical reef corals in a warming ocean ▶     Leïla Ezzat, Jean-François Maguer, Renaud Grover et al.     During the 20th century, seawater temperatures have significantly increased, leading to profound alterations in biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem processes. Elevated …             Spatiotemporal Divergence of the Warming Hiatus over Land Based on Different Definitions of Mean Temperature ▶     Chunlüe Zhou, Kaicun Wang     Existing studies of the recent warming hiatus over land are primarily based on the average of daily minimum and maximum temperatures (T2). This study compared regional warming …             Biochar amendment immobilizes lead in rice paddy soils and reduces its phytoavailability ▶     Honghong Li, Yuting Liu, Yanhui Chen et al.     This study aimed to determine effects of rice straw biochar on Pb sequestration in a soil-rice system. Pot experiments were conducted with rice plants in Pb-contaminated paddy …             Frequency shift of the Bragg and Non-Bragg backscattering from periodic water wave ▶     Biyang Wen, Ke Li     Doppler effect is used to measure the relative speed of a moving target with respect to the radar, and is also used to interpret the frequency shift of the backscattering from …             Ocean acidification changes the male fitness landscape ▶     Anna L. Campbell, Don R. Levitan, David J. Hosken et al.     Sperm competition is extremely common in many ecologically important marine taxa. Ocean acidification (OA) is driving rapid changes to the marine environments in which freely …             Assessment of agglomeration, co-sedimentation and trophic transfer of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in a laboratory-scale predator-prey model system ▶     Govind Sharan Gupta, Ashutosh Kumar, Rishi Shanker et al.     Nano titanium dioxide (nTiO2) is the most abundantly released engineered nanomaterial (ENM) in aquatic environments. Therefore, it is prudent to assess its fate and its effects …             Spatially governed climate factors dominate management in determining the quantity and distribution of soil organic carbon in dryland agricultural systems ▶     Frances C. Hoyle, Rebecca A. O’Leary, Daniel V. Murphy     Few studies describe the primary drivers influencing soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and the distribution of carbon (C) fractions in agricultural systems from semi-arid regions; …             Photo Initiated Chemical Vapour Deposition To Increase Polymer Hydrophobicity ▶     Ariane Bérard, Gregory S. Patience, Gérald Chouinard et al.     Apple growers face new challenges to produce organic apples and now many cover orchards with high-density polyethylene (HDPE) nets to exclude insects, rather than spraying …             Microbial and diagenetic steps leading to the mineralisation of Great Salt Lake microbialites ▶     Aurélie Pace, Raphaël Bourillot, Anthony Bouton et al.     Microbialites are widespread in modern and fossil hypersaline environments, where they provide a unique sedimentary archive. Authigenic mineral precipitation in modern …             Precipitation overrides warming in mediating soil nitrogen pools in an alpine grassland ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau ▶     Li Lin, Biao Zhu, Chengrong Chen et al.     Soils in the alpine grassland store a large amount of nitrogen (N) due to slow decomposition. However, the decomposition could be affected by climate change, which has profound …             Climate extremes can drive biological assemblages to early successional stages compared to several mild disturbances ▶     Carlos Sanz-Lázaro     Extreme climatic events have a major role in the structuring of biological communities, and their occurrence is expected to increase due to climate change. Here I use a …             Stable carbon isotope as a signal index for monitoring grassland degradation ▶     Hongyun Yao, Andreas Wilkes, Guodong Zhu et al.     Grassland degradation due to overgrazing is common in many areas of the world. This study analyzed the potential of the stable carbon isotope (δ13C) value as a structural …             High Efficient Photo-Fenton Catalyst of α-Fe2O3/MoS2 Hierarchical Nanoheterostructures: Reutilization for Supercapacitors ▶     Xijia Yang, Haiming Sun, Lishu Zhang et al.     A novel three-dimensional (3D) α-Fe2O3/MoS2 hierarchical nanoheterostructure is effectively synthesized via a facile hydrothermal method. The zero-dimensional (0D) Fe2O3 …             Ce3+-ion-induced visible-light photocatalytic degradation and electrochemical activity of ZnO/CeO2 nanocomposite ▶     Saravanan Rajendran, Mohammad Mansoob Khan, F. Gracia et al.     In this study, pure ZnO, CeO2 and ZnO/CeO2 nanocomposites were synthesized using a thermal decomposition method and subsequently characterized using different standard …             Pressure-induced Transformations of Dense Carbonyl Sulfide to Singly Bonded Amorphous Metallic Solid ▶     Minseob Kim, Ranga Dias, Yasuo Ohishi et al.     The application of pressure, internal or external, transforms molecular solids into non-molecular extended network solids with diverse crystal structures and electronic …             Structural and physical properties of the dust particles in Qatar and their influence on the PV panel performance ▶     Brahim Aïssa, Rima J. Isaifan, Vinod E. Madhavan et al.     Recently, extensive R&D has been conducted, both by industry and academia, to significantly raise the conversion efficiency of commercial photovoltaic (PV) modules. The …             Nanoscopic characterization of the water vapor-salt interfacial layer reveals a unique biphasic adsorption process ▶     Liu Yang, Jianfeng He, Yi Shen et al.     Our quantitative understanding of water adsorption onto salt surfaces under ambient conditions is presently quite poor owing to the difficulties in directly characterizing this …                 • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoctoral Fellow     Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University            Bioinformatics Research Assistant     The Anthony Nolan Trust            Research Assistant / Associate     University of Glasgow            Research Group Leader     Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation (CHS)            Postdoctoral Research Scientist     Columbia University            Post-Doctoral Fellow     University of Alberta            Senior Research Associate     Center for Human Disease Modeling, Duke University            Postdoctoral Research Fellow     University of Edinburgh            Research Fellowships     University of Cambridge            Postdoctoral Research Associate     Universitat fur Bodenkultur Wien          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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