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closeUnit mistake in introduction
Posted by malint91 on 06 Sep 2015 at 10:23 GMT
Dear Authors,
I have enjoyed reading your publication as I am currently working on fungal diversity and abundance myself. I have noticed, that you refer in your introduction to the paper by Gutierrez et al. (2010) on fungal biomass, however you have mixed up the units in your text. I quote:
"During the summer, fungal biomass can reach up to ~6 mg C/L of surface seawater [17] and the high fungal biomass was reported to be comparable to that of bacterioplankton in the coastal water [21]"
Gutierrez et al. (2010) saw up to 6 micrograms of Carbon per litre, not 6 milligrams. I appreciate the publication of your study, it helps a lot as there is so little known about marine fungi.
Kind regards
RE: Unit mistake in introduction
xplore replied to malint91 on 07 Sep 2015 at 17:29 GMT
Dear malint91,
Thank you for your careful reading. We apologize for the typo and it indeed was ug instead of mg. Hope others could see this too and we wish the article helped with your research.
Best,
Xin