Corrigendum: Associations between cyanobacteria and indices of secondary production in the western basin of Lake Erie
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Abstract
In the last year, we became aware that data used in our above-referenced manuscript from 2018 published in Limnology and Oceanography contained significant errors. In the 2018 manuscript, we found that indices of secondary production were negatively correlated to indices of cyanobacterial abundance and toxicity. Unfortunately, one of our indices of cyanobacterial abundance (biovolume) and our measurement of toxicity (microcystin concentration) were inaccurate in the data we used in the 2018 manuscript. Upon discovering these errors, we immediately began correcting the repositories where these data were available. Having corrected those data repositories, we are now reporting on the re-analysis of the data using the methods previously described in the 2018 manuscript. Although the relationships are slightly different, our interpretation is that the conclusions of the 2018 manuscript are still valid using the corrected data. The data errors we experienced were traced to a spreadsheet that was used to share data among the research team, which had errors caused by mistakes in copy-pasting formulas instead of data and ‘inadvertent’ edits that were saved by the spreadsheet's auto-save function. We apologize to the scientific community for these errors.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Corrigendum: Associations between cyanobacteria and indices of secondary production in the western basin of Lake Erie |
| Series title | Limnology and Oceanography |
| DOI | 10.1002/lno.12216 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Year Published | 2022 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | ASLO |
| Contributing office(s) | Great Lakes Science Center, Kansas Water Science Center, Pennsylvania Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center |
| Description | 4 p. |
| First page | 2617 |
| Last page | 2620 |
| Country | United States |
| Other Geospatial | Lake Erie |
| Google Analytic Metrics | Metrics page |