Front. Mar. Sci.Frontiers in Marine ScienceFront. Mar. Sci.2296-7745Frontiers Media S.A.10.3389/fmars.2019.00223Marine ScienceCorrectionCorrigendum: N2 Fixation in the Eastern Arabian Sea: Probable Role of Heterotrophic DiazotrophsKumarP. Kiran1SinghArvind1*RameshR.1†NallathambiT.21Physical Research Laboratory, Geosciences Division, Ahmedabad, India2National Institute of Ocean and Technology, Chennai, India
Edited and reviewed by: Selvaraj Kandasamy, Xiamen University, China
*Correspondence: Arvind Singh arvinds@prl.res.in
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†Present Address: R. Ramesh, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, NISER, Jatni, India
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A Corrigendum on N2 Fixation in the Eastern Arabian Sea: Probable Role of Heterotrophic Diazotrophs by Kumar, P. K., Singh, A., Ramesh, R., and Nallathambi, T. (2017). Front. Mar. Sci. 4:80. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00080dinitrogen fixation15N13Cnitrogen budgetcarbon uptake ratenutrientsbiogeochemistryArabian Sea
In the original article, there were errors in the text, Figure 5 and Figure 6, and Tables 1 and 2. We made a mistake in the reporting N2 fixation and carbon uptake rates. While reporting mean N2 fixation and mean carbon uptake rates, we forgot to include the duplicate values in calculation in the original article. We provide correct values in the following sections, figures and tables as described. Corrections have been made to the Results and Discussion section (sub-section “N2Fixation Rate and Carbon Uptake,” first line of first paragraph and sixteenth line of the first paragraph), the Conclusion (eighth line), as well as Figures 5 and 6 and Tables 1 and 2.
(A) N2 fixation rate and (B) Carbon uptake rate at the sampling location (NF-a, NF-b, and NF-c) for light (at ambient conditions) incubation for samples at different depths.
N2 fixation and carbon uptake rate at surface for light (gray bars) and dark (black bars) incubation.
Sampling Date, Latitude (°N), Longitude (°E), water depth (m), Nutrients concentrations (μM), N:P, P* (μM), particulate organic carbon (POC, μM) and nitrogen (PON, μM), N2 fixation (nM N h−1) and carbon (C) uptake (nM C h−1) at the three locations sampled in the eastern Arabian Sea.
Date and Station
Lat
Long
Depth
NO2
NO3
PO43-
SiO4
N:P
P*
POC
PON
N2 fixation
C uptake
10-May-10; NF-a
13.87
74.36
0
0.04
0.37
0.22
0.00
1.66
0.20
73
51
238.07
1628
5
0.04
0.66
0.13
0.00
4.94
0.10
26
5
5.05
173
10
0.06
0.76
0.18
0.00
4.25
0.13
21
7
6.68
121
20
0.02
0.45
0.13
0.19
3.34
0.10
23
5
5.98
78
12-May-10; NF-b
17.12
73.11
0
0.06
0.76
0.53
1.69
1.42
0.49
24
6
6.63
68
5
0.02
0.97
0.31
1.44
3.11
0.25
23
5
4.88
39
10
0.00
0.67
0.27
0.63
2.51
0.22
21
4
4.01
50
20
0.00
0.81
0.22
0.94
3.66
0.17
18
4
4.78
58
14-May-10; NF-c
14.96
73.84
0
0.14
2.42
0.71
0.00
3.40
0.56
44
25
8.70
24
5
0.12
0.90
0.22
0.00
4.05
0.17
20
4
6.19
22
10
0.12
0.58
0.09
0.00
6.53
0.05
16
4
5.38
24
20
0.02
0.91
0.00
0.00
NA
−0.06
15
3
6.15
16
Summary of Photic N2 fixation rates in the world oceans (Table updated after Singh et al., 2013; Benavides and Voss, 2015). (Only last row in the original Table 2 should be replaced by the following row).
Methodology
Areal Rates (μmol N m−2 d−1)
Region
References
15N2 tracer-bubble method*
1,140–8,405
Eastern Arabian Sea
This study
Results and Discussion
In the sub-section “N2Fixation Rate and Carbon Uptake,” first line of the first paragraph:
N2 fixation rates varied from 4 to 238 nM N h−1, while carbon uptake rate ranged between 16 and 1628 nM C h−1 (Figure 5).
In sixteenth line of the first paragraph:
Heterotrophs contributed up to 52% to the total N2 fixation (estimated from light and dark incubations, assuming light incubations correspond to phototrophic and dark to heterotrophic).
Conclusion
In the eighth line:
Based on the higher N2 fixation values at the surface for dark incubation, we hypothesize that heterotrophic fixers dominantly (about 52% of total N2 fixation is by heterotrophs) play an important role in fixing N2.
In the original article, there were mistakes in Figure 5, Figure 6, Table 1 and Table 2 as published. The figures and tables are now redrawn and reported with the revised N2 fixation and carbon uptake rates. In Table 2, we reported areal rates wrongly in the last row. The corrected Figure 5, Figure 6, Table 1 and Table 2 are presented below.
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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