Corrigendum to "LifeWatch observatory data: phytoplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea"

Luz Amadei Martínez; Jonas Mortelmans; Nick Dillen; Elisabeth Debusschere; Klaas Deneudt

doi:10.3897/BDJ.10.e81208

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Corrigendum

Corrigendum to "LifeWatch observatory data: phytoplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea"

Luz Amadei Martínez^‡,§, Jonas Mortelmans^‡, Nick Dillen^‡, Elisabeth Debusschere^‡, Klaas Deneudt^‡

‡ Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Wandelaarkaai 7, Oostende, Belgium

§ Ghent University, Department of Biology, Laboratory of Protistology & Aquatic Ecology, Ghent, Belgium

Corresponding author: Jonas Mortelmans (jonas.mortelmans@vliz.be)

Academic editor: Yasen Mutafchiev

Received: 26 Jan 2022 | Accepted: 26 Jan 2022 | Published: 24 Feb 2022

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Amadei Martínez L, Mortelmans J, Dillen N, Debusschere E, Deneudt K (2022) Corrigendum to "LifeWatch observatory data: phytoplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea". Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e81208. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e81208

Note

In the article by Amadei Martínez et al. (2020), the formula used to calculate phytoplankton densities was found erroneous. This formula led to the overestimation of densities in the dataset releases of Flanders Marine Institute (Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium 2019, Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium 2020a, Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium 2020b).

The formula has been updated and the entire dataset has been rectified. Recent dataset releases, i.e. Flanders Marine Institute (Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium 2021) and subsequent, will use the following formula to calculate phytoplankton densities:

\(Abundance ({cell\over L}) ={Count*Vol.sample (mL)\over Vol.imaged (mL)*Dilution factor*Vol.filtered (L)}\)

Acknowledgements

References

Amadei Martínez L, Mortelmans J, Dillen N, Debusschere E, Deneudt K (2020)

LifeWatch observatory data: phytoplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

Biodiversity Data Journal

https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.8.e57236

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2019)

LifeWatch observatory data: phytoplankton observations by imaging flow cytometry (FlowCam) in the Belgian Part of the North Sea.

URL: https://doi.org/10.14284/330

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2020a)

LifeWatch observatory data: phytoplankton observations by imaging flow cytometry (FlowCam) in the Belgian Part of the North Sea.

URL: https://doi.org/10.14284/416

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2020b)

LifeWatch observatory data: phytoplankton observations by imaging flow cytometry (FlowCam) in the Belgian Part of the North Sea.

URL: https://doi.org/10.14284/424

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2021)

LifeWatch observatory data: phytoplankton observations by imaging flow cytometry (FlowCam) in the Belgian Part of the North Sea.

URL: https://doi.org/10.14284/527

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