title: Erratum.
abstract: In the report "Stimulation of heterotrophic microplankton production by resuspended marine sediments" by Sam C. Wainright (18 Dec., p. 1710), two articles should not have been included in reference 2. These are G. T. Rowe, C. H. Clifford, K. L. Smith, Jr., P. L. Hamilton, Nature (London) 255, 215 (1975) and S. W. Nixon, C. A. Oviatt, S. S. Hale, in The Role of Terrestrial and Aquatic Organisms in Decomposition Processes, J. M. Anderson and A. MacFadyen, Eds. (Black-well, Oxford, England, 1976), pp. 269-283.