2/10/2015

New Papers (Nature, Science, etc...) 2015/02/02~2015/02/08

Nature
1. Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records
M. A. Martínez-Botí, G. L. Foster, T. B. Chalk, E. J. Rohling, P. F. Sexton, D. J. Lunt, R. D. Pancost, M. P. S. Badger & D. N. Schmidt
Nature 518, 49–54 (05 February 2015) doi:10.1038/nature14145

2. Predicting climate-driven regime shifts versus rebound potential in coral reefs
Nicholas A. J. Graham, Simon Jennings, M. Aaron MacNeil, David Mouillot & Shaun K. Wilson
Nature 518, 94–97 (05 February 2015) doi:10.1038/nature14140

Science
3. Seafloor grooves record the beat of the ice ages
Eric Hand
Science 6 February 2015: Vol. 347 no. 6222 pp. 593-594
DOI: 10.1126/science.347.6222.593

4. Asynchronous rotation of Earth-mass planets in the habitable zone of lower-mass stars
Jérémy Leconte, Hanbo Wu, Kristen Menou, and Norman Murray
Science 6 February 2015: Vol. 347 no. 6222 pp. 632-635
DOI: 10.1126/science.1258686

5. Termite mounds can increase the robustness of dryland ecosystems to climatic change
Juan A. Bonachela, Robert M. Pringle, Efrat Sheffer, Tyler C. Coverdale, Jennifer A. Guyton, Kelly K. Caylor, Simon A. Levin, and Corina E. Tarnita
Science 6 February 2015: Vol. 347 no. 6222 pp. 651-655
DOI: 10.1126/science.1261487

PNAS
6. Breakdown of coral colonial form under reduced pH conditions is initiated in polyps and mediated through apoptosis
Hagit Kvitt, Esti Kramarsky-Winter, Keren Maor-Landaw, Keren Zandbank, Ariel Kushmaro, Hanna Rosenfeld, Maoz Fine and Dan Tchernov
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1419621112

7. Sulfur-cycling fossil bacteria from the 1.8-Ga Duck Creek Formation provide promising evidence of evolution's null hypothesis
J. William Schopf, Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev, Malcolm R. Walter, Martin J. Van Kranendonk, Kenneth H. Williford, Reinhard Kozdon, John W. Valley, Victor A. Gallardo, Carola Espinoza, and David T. Flannery
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1419241112

Nature Communications
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Nature Geoscience
8. Influence of tree species on continental differences in boreal fires and climate feedbacks
Brendan M. Rogers, Amber J. Soja, Michael L. Goulden & James T. Randerson
Nature Geoscience (2015) doi:10.1038/ngeo2352

Nature Climate Change
9. Public division about climate change rooted in conflicting socio-political identities
Ana-Maria Bliuc, Craig McGarty, Emma F. Thomas, Girish Lala, Mariette Berndsen & RoseAnne Misajon
Nature Climate Change (2015) doi:10.1038/nclimate2507

10. Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006
Dean Roemmich, John Church, John Gilson, Didier Monselesan, Philip Sutton & Susan Wijffels
Nature Climate Change (2015) doi:10.1038/nclimate2513

11. Complementing carbon prices with technology policies to keep climate targets within reach
Christoph Bertram, Gunnar Luderer, Robert C. Pietzcker, Eva Schmid, Elmar Kriegler & Ottmar Edenhofer
Nature Climate Change (2015) doi:10.1038/nclimate2514

Scientific Reports
12. Red coralline algae assessed as marine pH proxies using 11B MAS NMR
M. Cusack, N. A. Kamenos, C. Rollion-Bard & G. Tricot
Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 8175 doi:10.1038/srep08175

13. Contrasting responses of Central Asian rock glaciers to global warming
Annina Sorg, Andreas Kääb, Andrea Roesch, Christof Bigler & Markus Stoffel
Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 8228 doi:10.1038/srep08228

Geology

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