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08 November 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Earth & Environmental Sciences               Disaster declarations associated with bushfires, floods and storms in New South Wales, Australia between 2004 and 2014 ▶     T. Sewell, R. E. Stephens, D. Dominey-Howes et al.     Australia regularly experiences disasters triggered by natural hazards and New South Wales (NSW) the most populous State is no exception. To date, no publically available spatial …             Stable isotopes measurements reveal dual carbon pools contributing to organic matter enrichment in marine aerosol ▶     Darius Ceburnis, Agne Masalaite, Jurgita Ovadnevaite et al.     Stable carbon isotope ratios in marine aerosol collected over the Southern Indian Ocean revealed δ13C values ranging from −20.0‰ to −28.2‰. The isotope ratios exhibited a strong …             In ovo uptake, metabolism, and tissue-specific distribution of chiral PCBs and PBDEs in developing chicken embryos ▶     Zong-Rui Li, Xiao-Jun Luo, Li-Qian Huang et al.     Fertilized chicken eggs were injected with environmental doses of 4 chiral polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and 8 polybrominated biphenyl ethers (PBDEs) to investigate their …             Power-law rheology controls aftershock triggering and decay ▶     Xiaoming Zhang, Robert Shcherbakov     The occurrence of aftershocks is a signature of physical systems exhibiting relaxation phenomena. They are observed in various natural or experimental systems and usually obey …             Children’s Caregivers and Public Playgrounds: Potential Reservoirs of Infection of Hand-foot-and-mouth Disease ▶     Pengyuan Li, Tao Li, Qiuyun Gu et al.     Hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) is a common infectious disease, which has led to millions of clinical cases and hundreds of deaths every year in China. This study aimed to …             Cyanobacteria in lakes on Yungui Plateau, China are assembled via niche processes driven by water physicochemical property, lake morphology and watershed land-use ▶     Jingqiu Liao, Lei Zhao, Xiaofeng Cao et al.     Plateau lakes are important ecosystems with diverse ecological functions. Cyanobacteria play a key role in plateau lakes as primary producers. However, they are threatening when …             A Comprehensive Model for Real Gas Transport in Shale Formations with Complex Non-planar Fracture Networks ▶     Ruiyue Yang, Zhongwei Huang, Wei Yu et al.     A complex fracture network is generally generated during the hydraulic fracturing treatment in shale gas reservoirs. Numerous efforts have been made to model the flow behavior of …             Tsunamis caused by submarine slope failures along western Great Bahama Bank ▶     Jara S.D. Schnyder, Gregor P. Eberli, James T. Kirby et al.     Submarine slope failures are a likely cause for tsunami generation along the East Coast of the United States. Among potential source areas for such tsunamis are submarine …             Remote Sensing of the Water Storage Dynamics of Large Lakes and Reservoirs in the Yangtze River Basin from 2000 to 2014 ▶     Xiaobin Cai, Lian Feng, Xuejiao Hou et al.     Basin-scale water volumes of lakes and reservoirs are difficult to obtain due to a number of challenges. In this study, area-based water storage estimation models are proposed …             Influence of tillage practices and straw incorporation on soil aggregates, organic carbon, and crop yields in a rice-wheat rotation system ▶     Ke Song, Jianjun Yang, Yong Xue et al.     In this study, a fixed-site field experiment was conducted to study the influence of different combinations of tillage and straw incorporation management on carbon storage in …             Alterations in soil microbial community composition and biomass following agricultural land use change ▶     Qian Zhang, Junjun Wu, Fan Yang et al.     The effect of agricultural land use change on soil microbial community composition and biomass remains a widely debated topic. Here, we investigated soil microbial community …             Enrichment of 13C in diacids and related compounds during photochemical processing of aqueous aerosols: New proxy for organic aerosols aging ▶     Chandra Mouli Pavuluri, Kimitaka Kawamura     To investigate the applicability of compound specific stable carbon isotope ratios (δ13C) of organics in assessment of their photochemical aging in the atmosphere, batch UV …             Disentangling gross N2O production and consumption in soil ▶     Yuan Wen, Zhe Chen, Michael Dannenmann et al.     The difficulty of measuring gross N2O production and consumption in soil impedes our ability to predict N2O dynamics across the soil-atmosphere interface. Our study aimed to …             Rapid corn and soybean mapping in US Corn Belt and neighboring areas ▶     Liheng Zhong, Le Yu, Xuecao Li et al.     The goal of this study was to promptly map the extent of corn and soybeans early in the growing season. A classification experiment was conducted for the US Corn Belt and …             Insights into the Ecotoxicity of Silver Nanoparticles Transferred from Escherichia coli to Caenorhabditis elegans ▶     Xun Luo, Shengmin Xu, Yaning Yang et al.     Previous studies have indicated that engineered nanomaterials can be transferred through the food chain. However, their potential ecotoxicity to the environment is not fully …             Fluorimetric Mercury Test Strips with Suppressed “Coffee Stains” by a Bio-inspired Fabrication Strategy ▶     Yuchun Qiao, Jizhen Shang, Shuying Li et al.     A fluorimetric Hg2+ test strip has been developed using a lotus-inspired fabrication method for suppressing the “coffee stains” toward the uniform distribution of probe materials …             Diversity and function of the Antarctic krill microorganisms from Euphausia superba ▶     Xiaoqiu Cui, Guoliang Zhu, Haishan Liu et al.     The diversity and ecological function of microorganisms associated with Euphausia superba, still remain unknown. This study identified 75 microbial isolates from E. superba, that …             Corrigendum: Drought dominates the interannual variability in global terrestrial net primary production by controlling semi-arid ecosystems ▶     Ling Huang, Bin He, Aifang Chen et al.                 Future C loss in mid-latitude mineral soils: climate change exceeds land use mitigation potential in France ▶     Jeroen Meersmans, Dominique Arrouays, Anton J. J. Van Rompaey et al.     Many studies have highlighted significant interactions between soil C reservoir dynamics and global climate and environmental change. However, in order to estimate the future …             The role of Internal Solitary Waves on deep-water sedimentary processes: the case of up-slope migrating sediment waves off the Messina Strait ▶     R. Droghei, F. Falcini, D. Casalbore et al.     Subaqueous, asymmetric sand waves are typically observed in marine channel/canyon systems, tidal environments, and continental slopes exposed to strong currents, where they are …             Sensitivity of El Niño intensity and timing to preceding subsurface heat magnitude ▶     Joan Ballester, Desislava Petrova, Simona Bordoni et al.     Despite extensive ongoing efforts on improving the long-term prediction of El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the predictability in state-of-the-art operational schemes remains …             Timing and causes of North African wet phases during the last glacial period and implications for modern human migration ▶     Dirk L. Hoffmann, Mike Rogerson, Christoph Spötl et al.     We present the first speleothem-derived central North Africa rainfall record for the last glacial period. The record reveals three main wet periods at 65-61 ka, 52.5-50.5 ka and …             The formation of the ocean’s anthropogenic carbon reservoir ▶     Daniele Iudicone, Keith B. Rodgers, Yves Plancherel et al.     The shallow overturning circulation of the oceans transports heat from the tropics to the mid-latitudes. This overturning also influences the uptake and storage of anthropogenic …             Effects of sedimentation on soil physical and chemical properties and vegetation characteristics in sand dunes at the Southern Dongting Lake region, China ▶     Ying Pan, Hao Zhang, Xu Li et al.     Sedimentation is recognized as a major factor determining the ecosystem processes of lake beaches; however, the underlying mechanisms, especially in freshwater sand dunes, have …             Faster poleward range shifts in moths with more variable colour patterns ▶     Anders Forsman, Per-Eric Betzholtz, Markus Franzén     Range shifts have been documented in many organisms, and climate change has been implicated as a contributing driver of latitudinal and altitudinal range modifications. However, …             Human vision is determined based on information theory ▶     Alfonso Delgado-Bonal, Javier Martín-Torres     It is commonly accepted that the evolution of the human eye has been driven by the maximum intensity of the radiation emitted by the Sun. However, the interpretation of the …             Critical Dynamics of Gravito-Convective Mixing in Geological Carbon Sequestration ▶     Mohamad Reza Soltanian, Mohammad Amin Amooie, Zhenxue Dai et al.     When CO2 is injected in saline aquifers, dissolution causes a local increase in brine density that can cause Rayleigh-Taylor-type gravitational instabilities. Depending on the …             Remote in vivo stress assessment of aquatic animals with microencapsulated biomarkers for environmental monitoring ▶     Anton Gurkov, Ekaterina Shchapova, Daria Bedulina et al.     Remote in vivo scanning of physiological parameters is a major trend in the development of new tools for the fields of medicine and animal physiology. For this purpose, a variety …             Erupted frothy xenoliths may explain lack of country-rock fragments in plutons ▶     Steffi Burchardt, Valentin R. Troll, Harro Schmeling et al.     Magmatic stoping is discussed to be a main mechanism of magma emplacement. As a consequence of stoping, abundant country-rock fragments should occur within, and at the bottom of, …             Bioluminescence as an ecological factor during high Arctic polar night ▶     Heather A. Cronin, Jonathan H. Cohen, Jørgen Berge et al.     Bioluminescence commonly influences pelagic trophic interactions at mesopelagic depths. Here we characterize a vertical gradient in structure of a generally low species diversity …             Contribution of Atmospheric Diffusion Conditions to the Recent Improvement in Air Quality in China ▶     Xiaoyan Wang, Kaicun Wang, Liangyuan Su     This study analyzed hourly mass concentration observations of PM2.5 (particulate matters with diameter less than 2.5 μm) at 512 stations in China from December 2013 to May 2015. …             Relative abundance of chemical forms of Cu(II) and Cd(II) on soybean roots as influenced by pH, cations and organic acids ▶     Qin Zhou, Zhao-dong Liu, Yuan Liu et al.     Little information is available on chemical forms of heavy metals on integrate plant roots. KNO3 (1 M), 0.05M EDTA at pH6 and 0.01 M HCl were used sequentially to extract the …             Pollutant-induced cell death and reactive oxygen species accumulation in the aerial roots of Chinese banyan (Ficus microcarpa) ▶     Nan Liu, Ce Cao, Zhongyu Sun et al.     Industrial pollutants induce the production of toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as O2.−, H2O2, and ·OH in plants, but they have not been well quantified or localized in …             Microbial community dynamics in the rhizosphere of a cadmium hyper-accumulator ▶     J. L. Wood, C. Zhang, E. R. Mathews et al.     Phytoextraction is influenced by the indigenous soil microbial communities during the remediation of heavy metal contaminated soils. Soil microbial communities can affect plant …             Interaction of benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide isomers with human serum albumin: Site specific characterisation of adducts and associated kinetics ▶     Hitesh V. 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