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30 August 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Springer Nature offers a free open access funding support service to enable authors to discover and apply for article processing charge funding available to them. Visit our website for further advice on the funding options available, and guidance in approaching funders and institutions, or email openaccess@nature.com for more information.                 Earth & Environmental Sciences               Satellite-based characterization of climatic conditions before large-scale general flowering events in Peninsular Malaysia ▶     Muna Maryam Azmy, Mazlan Hashim, Shinya Numata et al.     General flowering (GF) is a unique phenomenon wherein, at irregular intervals, taxonomically diverse trees in Southeast Asian dipterocarp forests synchronize their reproduction …             Dramatic mass loss in extreme high-elevation areas of a western Himalayan glacier: observations and modeling ▶     Huabiao Zhao, Wei Yang, Tandong Yao et al.     Rapid climate change at high elevations has accelerated glacier retreat in the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau. However, due to the lack of long-term glaciological measurements, …             Temporal Patterns in Fine Particulate Matter Time Series in Beijing: A Calendar View ▶     Jianzheng Liu, Jie Li, Weifeng Li     Extremely high fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration has become synonymous to Beijing, the capital of China, posing critical challenges to its sustainable development and …             New insights into negative effects of lithium on sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus embryos ▶     Nadia Ruocco, Maria Costantini, Luigia Santella     The diffuse use of lithium in a number of industrial processes has produced a significant contamination of groundwater and surface water with it. The increased use of lithium has …             Particle Size Controls on Water Adsorption and Condensation Regimes at Mineral Surfaces ▶     Merve Yeşilbaş, Jean-François Boily     Atmospheric water vapour interacting with hydrophilic mineral surfaces can produce water films of various thicknesses and structures. In this work we show that mineral particle …             Sub-lethal effects of dietary neonicotinoid insecticide exposure on honey bee queen fecundity and colony development ▶     Judy Wu-Smart, Marla Spivak     Many factors can negatively affect honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) health including the pervasive use of systemic neonicotinoid insecticides. Through direct consumption of …             Magma transfer at Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy) before the 1538 AD eruption ▶     Mauro A. Di Vito, Valerio Acocella, Giuseppe Aiello et al.     Calderas are collapse structures related to the emptying of magmatic reservoirs, often associated with large eruptions from long-lived magmatic systems. Understanding how magma …             Erratum: Tsunami-generated magnetic fields may constrain focal mechanisms of earthquakes ▶     Issei Kawashima, Hiroaki Toh                 Long distance seawater intrusion through a karst conduit network in the Woodville Karst Plain, Florida ▶     Zexuan Xu, Seth Willis Bassett, Bill Hu et al.     Five periods of increased electrical conductivity have been found in the karst conduits supplying one of the largest first magnitude springs in Florida with water. Numerous …             Invasion of moso bamboo into a Japanese cedar plantation affects the chemical composition and humification of soil organic matter ▶     Hsueh-Ching Wang, Guanglong Tian, Chih-Yu Chiu     Bamboo, which has dense culms and root rhizome systems, can alter soil properties when it invades adjacent forests. Therefore, this study investigated whether bamboo invasions …             A mir-231-Regulated Protection Mechanism against the Toxicity of Graphene Oxide in Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ▶     Ruilong Yang, Mingxia Ren, Qi Rui et al.     Recently, several dysregulated microRNAs (miRNAs) have been identified in organisms exposed to graphene oxide (GO). However, their biological functions and mechanisms of the …             Fungal decomposition of terrestrial organic matter accelerated Early Jurassic climate warming ▶     Grzegorz Pieńkowski, Marta Hodbod, Clemens V. Ullmann     Soils – constituting the largest terrestrial carbon pool - are vulnerable to climatic warming. Currently existing uncertainties regarding carbon fluxes within terrestrial systems …             Erratum: On the use of composite analyses to form physical hypotheses: An example from heat wave – SST associations ▶     Ghyslaine Boschat, Ian Simmonds, Ariaan Purich et al.                 From greening to browning: Catchment vegetation development and reduced S-deposition promote organic carbon load on decadal time scales in Nordic lakes ▶     Anders G. Finstad, Tom Andersen, Søren Larsen et al.     Increased concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), often labelled “browning”, is a current trend in northern, particularly boreal, freshwaters. The browning has been …             Weakening of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall due to Changes in Land Use Land Cover ▶     Supantha Paul, Subimal Ghosh, Robert Oglesby et al.     Weakening of Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) is traditionally linked with large-scale perturbations and circulations. However, the impacts of local changes in land use and …             Satellite measurements reveal strong anisotropy in spatial coherence of climate variations over the Tibet Plateau ▶     Deliang Chen, Yudong Tian, Tandong Yao et al.     This study uses high-resolution, long-term satellite observations to evaluate the spatial scales of the climate variations across the Tibet Plateau (TP). Both land surface …             A highly sensitive underwater video system for use in turbid aquaculture ponds ▶     Chin-Chang Hung, Shih-Chieh Tsao, Kuo-Hao Huang et al.     The turbid, low-light waters characteristic of aquaculture ponds have made it difficult or impossible for previous video cameras to provide clear imagery of the ponds’ benthic …             A predictive nondestructive model for the covariation of tree height, diameter, and stem volume scaling relationships ▶     Zhongrui Zhang, Quanlin Zhong, Karl J. Niklas et al.     Metabolic scaling theory (MST) posits that the scaling exponents among plant height H, diameter D, and biomass M will covary across phyletically diverse species. However, the …             Mangifera sylvatica (Wild Mango): A new cocoa butter alternative ▶     Sayma Akhter, Morag A. McDonald, Ray Marriott     Cocoa butter is the pure butter extracted from cocoa beans and is a major ingredient in the chocolate industry. Global production of cocoa is in decline due to crop failure, …             Sorbent track: Quantitative monitoring of adsorbed VOCs under in-situ plasma exposure ▶     Zixian Jia, Antoine Rousseau     Sorbent-TRACK is a new device developed to monitor adsorption and surface oxidation of pollutants under direct plasma exposure. It is based on direct transmitted Fourier …             Improving spatial prioritisation for remote marine regions: optimising biodiversity conservation and sustainable development trade-offs ▶     Cordelia H. Moore, Ben T. Radford, Hugh P. Possingham et al.     Creating large conservation zones in remote areas, with less intense stakeholder overlap and limited environmental information, requires periodic review to ensure zonation …             Distribution patterns of phthalic acid esters in soil particle-size fractions determine biouptake in soil-cereal crop systems ▶     Wenbing Tan, Yuan Zhang, Xiaosong He et al.     The use of wastewater irrigation for food crops can lead to presence of bioavailable phthalic acid esters (PAEs) in soils, which increase the potential for human exposure and …             Coral reef soundscapes may not be detectable far from the reef ▶     Maxwell B. Kaplan, T. Aran Mooney     Biological sounds produced on coral reefs may provide settlement cues to marine larvae. Sound fields are composed of pressure and particle motion, which is the back and forth …             Sleep Duration and the Risk of Fatty Liver Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis ▶     Na Shen, Peng Wang, Weiming Yan     Recent studies have reported inconsistent results on the association between sleep duration and the risk of fatty liver disease (FLD). Thus, we quantitatively evaluated this …             Synthesis of Vertically Standing MoS2 Triangles on SiC ▶     Feifei Lan, Zhanping Lai, Yongkuan Xu et al.     Layered material MoS2 has been attracting much attention due to its excellent electronical properties and catalytic property. Here we report the synthesis of vertically standing …             Molecular and ionic-scale chemical mechanisms behind the role of nitrocyl group in the electrochemical removal of heavy metals from sludge ▶     S. W. Hasan, I. Ahmed, A. A. Housani et al.     The chemical basis for improved removal rates of toxic heavy metals such as Zn and Cu from wastewater secondary sludge has been demonstrated in this study. Instead of using …             Drone exposure to the systemic insecticide Fipronil indirectly impairs queen reproductive potential ▶     Guillaume Kairo, Bertille Provost, Sylvie Tchamitchian et al.     A species that requires sexual reproduction but cannot reproduce is doomed to extinction. 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