Correction to: Environ Sci Eur (2019) 31:24 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-019-0207-z

The authors note a correction to the article [1]. Figure 1 of the original article is incomplete. Diaoyu Island, Chiwei Yu and the Dongsha Islands are missing. This article presents the corrected version of Fig. 1.

Fig. 1
figure 1

Sampling sites in the Yangtze Estuary and nearby coastal areas. The pink dotted circle represented the Nearshore area, the orange dotted circle represented the Estuarine Turbidity Maxima (ETM) zone and the blue dotted sector represented the Plume zone