This article is a correction to:
Environmental and Biological Determinants of Algal Lipids in Western Arctic and Subarctic Seas
Vincent Marmillot
Christopher C. Parrish
Jean-Éric Tremblay
Michel Gosselin
Jenna F. MacKinnon- 1Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
- 2Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada
- 3Institut des Sciences de la mer de Rimouski, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, QC, Canada
A corrigendum on
Environmental and Biological Determinants of Algal Lipids in Western Arctic and Subarctic Seas
by Marmillot, V., Parrish, C. C., Tremblay, J.-É., Gosselin, M., and MacKinnon, J. F. (2020) Environmental and Biological Determinants of Algal Lipids in Western Arctic and Subarctic Seas. Front. Environ. Sci. 8:538635. doi:10.3389/fenvs.2020.538635
In the original article, there was an error in the Materials and Methods. It was indicated sampling was conducted at Baffin Bay between 26 and 28 August. In fact it was 26–28 September. A correction has been made to the Materials and Methods section, subsection Survey Area.
“Sampling was conducted with the Canadian icebreaker CCGS Amundsen from 29 July to October 2, 2016. The 44 stations were spread out across Baffin Bay (29 July - 3 August and 26–28 September), Nares Strait (6–16 August), the Northwest Passage (4 August and 17–24 August and 18–25 September), the Beaufort Sea (28 August - 5 September) and the Labrador Sea (1–2 October). According to the general ocean circulation pattern, different water masses influence the overall sampling area. The western parts of Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea are exposed to cold and relatively fresh waters descending from the high Arctic, such as the Baffin Island Current and the Labrador Current (Tremblay et al., 2018). These two currents carry predominantly Pacific-derived waters that previously transited across the Beaufort Sea and enter the Canadian Archipelago via Nares Strait and the Northwest Passage’s Barrow Strait and Lancaster Sound. By contrast, Atlantic waters enter the survey area around the southern tip of Greenland and propagate northward with the West Greenland Current along the eastern edges of the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay eventually crossing to the west. Most of the sampling stations were located in relatively shallow waters but regional differences in average bottom depths were present, with shelf stations of the Labrador sea (153 ± 13 m) and Northwest Passage (204 ± 26 m) being shallower than stations in the Beaufort Sea (352 ± 70 m), Nares Strait (476 ± 31 m) and Baffin Bay (489 ± 42 m).”
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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Keywords: lipids, phytoplankton, ω3 FA, ω6 FA, Arctic, taxonomy, environment
Citation: Marmillot V, Parrish CC, Tremblay J-É, Gosselin M and MacKinnon JF (2021) Corrigendum: Environmental and Biological Determinants of Algal Lipids in Western Arctic and Subarctic Seas. Front. Environ. Sci. 9:655241. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.655241
Received: 18 January 2021; Accepted: 21 January 2021;
Published: 11 March 2021.
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*Correspondence: Vincent Marmillot, vincent.marmillot.1@ulaval.ca; Christopher C. Parrish, cparrish@mun.ca