The article “On the Possibility of Aerobic Methane Production by Pelagic Microbial Communities of the Laptev Sea”, written by O. S. Samylina, I. I. Rusanov, I. Yu. Tarnovetskii, E. V. Yakushev, A. A. Grinko, E. E. Zakharova, A. Yu. Merkel, T. A. Kanapatskiy, I. P. Semiletov, and N. V. Pimenov, was originally published electronically in Springer-Link on 12 April 2021 without Open Access. After publication in volume 90, issue 2, pages 131-144 the authors decided to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to ©The Author(s) 2021 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, CC BY), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction of a work in any medium or format, as long as you cite the original author(s) and publication source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.