Erratum to: Microb Ecol

DOI 10.1007/s00248-009-9454-z

In the original version of this article, the second to the last sentence of the Abstract section was incomplete, the words “The stratified” are missing. The sentence should read: “The stratified area revealed a singular temporal pattern with hypoxic bottom waters in winter and oxygen-rich waters appearing in summer related with the availability of light and predominant microbes.”