In the published article [1], the authors identified some errors in Table 2 and Table 3 and therefore wish to replace the file on the webpage of the Diversity journal.
Table 2.
Union concern species present in WRiMS records for Mediterranean Sea (continued).
Table 3.
Species of Member States concern (EASIN).
The correct data for Table 2 and Table 3 were downloaded from the European Commission. However, some of the rows in Excel were hidden while working with the dataset intended for the tables. As a result, not all data were copied into the main text. This mistake does not affect the content of the article, as only a few sentences need to be corrected accordingly.
Introduction. On paragraph 7, in line 9, “two” should be replaced by “three”, in line 10, “is” should be replaced with “are” and in line 11, “followed by” should be deleted.
Results. In Chapter 3.1., on paragraph 1, row 2 “sinensisis” should be replaced with “sinensis”. On paragraph 2, the following text should be deleted from the second sentence: “While only one is of Ireland’s concern, and two are of Spain’s and Ireland’s concern”. On paragraph 3, the sentence should be corrected as follows: “Additionally, within the total number of analyzed species from WRiMS for the Mediterranean Sea, 118 (12%) species are categorized in the EASIN database as species of high impact (Table S1)”.
Discussion. On paragraph 6, in row 2, “sinensisis” should be replaced with “sinensis”. In row 4, “sinensisis” should be replaced with “sinensis” and reference “[73]” should be deleted. In row 6, reference “[74]” should be replaced with references “[82,83]” and “sinensisis” should be replaced with “sinensis”. In row 7, “[75]” should be replaced with “[82]”. In row 9, “sinensisis” should be replaced with “sinensis”. In row 14, the phrase “and Ireland” should be deleted and in row 15, “11%” should be replaced with “12%”.
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The authors apologize for any inconvenience this change may cause to the readers. The authors state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. This correction was approved by the Academic Editor. The original publication has also been updated.
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