Correction to: Environ Earth Sci (2017) 76:171 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-017-6499-7

The article “Polybrominated diphenyl ethers and its methoxylated analogues in biota and sediment samples from two freshwater lakes in Yangtze River delta, written by Xinyu Du, Hong Chang, Yihui Zhou, Yanling Qiu, Yan Wu, Zhifen Lin, Zhiliang Zhu and Jianfu Zhao, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 18 February 2017 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on June 21, 2019 to © The Author(s) 2019 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

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