Correction: Monahan et al. Spatial Patterns in Fish Assemblages across the National Ecological Observation Network (NEON): The First Six Years. Fishes 2023, 8, 552

Figure Legend

In the original publication [1], there was a mistake in the legend for Figure 1. The source (Battelle) of the figure was incorrectly repeated as it was cited in the legend as reference 15. The correct legend appears below:

Figure 1. NEON wadable stream sites in 20 ecoclimatic domains. Core sites are wilderness sites, and gradient sites are sites with known anthropogenic stressors [15].

In the legend for Figure 2, the source (Battelle) of the figure was incorrectly repeated as it was cited in the legend as reference 16. The correct legend appears below:

Figure 2. Schematic of a 1 km NEON stream site delineated into ten 100 m reaches: 3 fixed and 7 random sampling reaches. The three fixed reaches are sampled every visit; three random reaches are chosen each year for sampling [16].

In the legend for Figure 5, the number of sampling sites was stated as 24, while the correct number of sites is 23. The correct legend appears below:

Figure 5. Distribution of 52,882 individual wet weights of fish measured in 23 NEON wadable stream sites. The data include all fish measured from 2015 to 2022. The y-axis represents 154 taxa ranked by the maximum fish size per taxon. Most taxon names are removed for clarity. Colors and sizes reflect the relative wet weights of fishes (yellow = largest, black = smallest).

Missing Citation

In the original publication, the original reference 14, Parker, S.M.; Utz, R.M. Temporal design for aquatic organismal sampling across the National Ecological Observatory Network. Methods Ecol. Evol. 2022, 13, 1834–1848, was not cited in one of the relevant sentences. The citation has now been inserted in the last sentence of the first paragraph of Section 2.2. “Biological Sampling Windows” and should read:

These criteria were chosen as the fish sampling windows, as they are an important biogeochemical catalyst and allow fish data to be associated with those collocated biogeochemical parameters [5,14].

Text Correction

There was an error in the original publication. A correction has been made to the fifth paragraph of Section 1. “Introduction”. The last sentence of this paragraph, “But NEON, the wadable stream site selection, was not designed to ensure that fish assemblages are regionally representative”, should be changed to “NEON’s wadable stream sites were selected to answer a broad range of ecological questions at varying scales, but were not specifically selected to represent the full range of regional fish assemblages”.

In the original publication, there were several instances where “NEON” has been referred to incorrectly. It has been changed to “NEON program” throughout the text where relevant.

In the original publication, several spelling errors have been found. All the errors have been corrected.

In the original publication, the Funding part was incorrect. The correct Funding statement appears below:

Funding: The National Ecological Observatory Network is a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation and operated under cooperative agreement by Battelle. This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation through the NEON Program, as well as Grant No. 2106067 to JSW.

Reference

In the original publication, the provided link for reference 5 was incorrect. The reference link has been changed to https://data.neonscience.org/api/v0/documents/NEON.DOC.001152vA (accessed on 1 May 2023).

Addition of an ORCID

In the original publication, the ORCID ID was missing for the last author, Hannah Schartel. The correct ORCID ID for Hannah Schartel is 0000-0002-8159-7966.

The authors state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. This correction was approved by the Academic Editor. The original publication has also been updated.