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Correction to Nanoplastic Affects Growth of S. obliquus and Reproduction of D. magna Ellen Besseling,* Bo Wang, Miquel Lürling, and Albert A. Koelmans

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Environ. Sci. Technol. 2014, 48, 12336−12343; DOI: 10.1021/es503001d Two corrections to the Implication Section of our paper1 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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(1) Besseling, E.; Wang, B.; Lürling, M.; Koelmans, A. A. Nanoplastic affects growth of S. obliquus and reproduction of D. magna. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2014, 48, 12336−12343. (2) Eriksen, M.; Mason, S.; Wilson, S.; Box, C.; Zellers, A.; Edwards, W.; Farley, H.; Amato, S. Microplastic pollution in the surface waters of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 2013, 77, 177−182. (3) Besseling, E.; Foekema, E. M.; Koelmans, A. A. Verkennend onderzoek microplastic in het beheersgebied van waterschap rivierenland; Wageningen University; Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2014; pp 1− 18. (4) Lopez Lozano, R.; Mouat, J. Marine litter in the North-East Atlantic Region; OSPAR Commission: London, United Kingdom, 2009; pp 1−120.

Published: November 18, 2014 © 2014 American Chemical Society

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