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Correction to Nanoplastic Affects Growth of S. obliquus and Reproduction of D. magna
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This is a correction to a previous study on nanoplastic effects on algae and water fleas, noting that the corrected analysis shows that the concentrations used in the lab were 100 million to 10 billion times higher than those measured in real freshwater environments. The correction is methodologically important for interpreting whether lab findings are ecologically relevant.
Two corrections to the Implication Section of our paper (1) are needed. The corrections do not change the conclusions of our paper. In the original paper, a range of 0.04–34 ng/L was mentioned for the microplastic concentrations found in fresh water in the U.S. (2) and Europe. (3) This range should have been 0.4–34 ng/L. Furthermore, a trawling depth of 0.01 m was mentioned, which should have been 0.1 m. Correction of these errors results in the conclusion that our observed effect concentrations are a factor 106–108 higher (previously:106) than the 0.4–34 ng/L microplastic concentrations found in fresh water in the U.S. (2) and Europe, (3) and about 2 orders of magnitude higher than the highest reported microplastic concentration in marine water. (4) The implications and conclusions based on these comparisons remain the same.
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