5/11/2015

Journal Review 6 – 12 May 2015 (Nature, Science, Geology, PNAS, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications)



NATURE
1. Crust crunch leads to huge quakes
Nature 521, 9 (07 May 2015)
Nature Geosci. (2015)

2. Conservation: Fossils show extinction risk
Nature 521, 9 (07 May 2015)
Science 348, 567-570 (2015)

3. Water resources: Research network to track alpine water
John Pomeroy, Matthias Bernhardt & Daniel Marks
Nature 521, 32 (07 May 2015)

4. Curtain eruptions from Enceladus’ south-polar terrain
Joseph N. Spitale, Terry A. Hurford, Alyssa R. Rhoden, Emily E. Berkson & Symeon S. Platts
Nature 521, 57-60 (07 May 2015)


SCIENCE
5. The potential of secondary forests
F. Bongers, R. Chazdon, L. Poorter, M. Peña-Claros
Vol. 348 no. 6235 pp. 642-643

6. Conservation: Committing to ecological restoration
Katharine Suding, Eric Higgs, Margaret Palmer, J. Baird Callicott, Christopher B. Anderson, Matthew Baker, John J. Gutrich, Kelly L. Hondula, Matthew C. LaFevor, Brendon M. H. Larson, Alan Randall, J. B. Ruhl & Katrina Z. S. Schwartz
Vol. 348 no. 6235 pp. 638-640


GEOLOGY
7. Rapid exhumation in the Western Alps driven by slab detachment and glacial erosion
Matthew Fox, Frédéric Herman, Edi Kissling & Sean D. Willett
v. 43, no. 5, p. 379-382

8. Intense and widespread seismicity during the end-Triassic mass extinction due to emplacement of a large igneous province
Sofie Lindström, Gunver Krarup Pedersen, Bas van de Schootbrugge et al.
v. 43, no. 5, p. 387-390

9. Mid-Cretaceous High Arctic stratigraphy, climate, and Oceanic Anoxic Events
Jens O. Herrle, Claudia J. Schröder-Adams, William Davis et al.
v. 43, no. 5, p. 403-406

10. Mismatch of glacier extent and summer insolation in Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes
Alice M. Doughty, Joerg M. Schaefer, Aaron E. Putnam et al.
v. 43, no. 5, p. 407-410

11. Global increase in plant carbon isotope fractionation following the Last Glacial Maximum caused by increase in atmospheric pCO2
Brian A. Schubert & A. Hope Jahren
v. 43, no. 5, p. 435-438


PNAS
12. Persistent ecological shifts in marine molluscan assemblages across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction
Martin Aberhan & Wolfgang Kiessling

13. Uranium isotopes fingerprint biotic reduction
Malgorzata Stylo, Nadja Neubert, Yuheng Wang et al.
vol. 112 no. 18


NATURE GEOSCIENCE
14. High rates of organic carbon burial in fjord sediments globally
Richard W. Smith, Thomas S. Bianchi, Mead Allison, Candida Savage & Valier Galy

15. Future productivity and carbon storage limited by terrestrial nutrient availability
William R. Wieder, Cory C. Cleveland, W. Kolby Smith & Katherine Todd-Brown

16. Links between atmospheric carbon dioxide, the land carbon reservoir and climate over the past millennium
Thomas K. Bauska, Fortunat Joos, Alan C. Mix, Raphael Roth, Jinho Ahn & Edward J. Brook
Nature Geoscience 8, 383-387 (2015)


NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
17. Extreme 13C depletion of carbonates formed during oxidation of biogenic methane in fractured granite
Henrik Drake, Mats E. Åström, Christine Heim et al.
Nature Communications 6, 7030

18. The oldest record of ornithuromorpha from the early Cretaceous of China
Min Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Jingmai K. O’Connor et al.

Nature Communications 6, 6987