Erratum to: Ecosystems (2012) 15:477–491 DOI 10.1007/s10021-012-9523-5

Due to a technical error, Figure 4 appeared incompletely in the final version of this paper. The correct presentation of the figure is below.

Fig. 4
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Bacterial cell densities on birch and oak litter in the aquatic (A) and the terrestrial (B) environments after 112 days in detritivore-free controls (C) and when isopods (I), snails (S) or isopods and snails (IS) were present. Whisker-box-plots indicate minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum (N = 7); different lower-case letters indicate statistically significant differences (α = 0.05)