In the paper "Can ligand addition to soil enhance Cd phytoextraction? A mechanistic model study" by Zhongbing Lin, André Schneider, Christophe Nguyen, and Thibault Sterckeman published in the Environmental Science and Pollution Research (November 2014, Volume 21, Issue 22, pp 12811-12826; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007s11356-014-3218-8, there were nine typesetting mistakes and two other errors which must be corrected. Page 12813, Eq. (1) Page 12813, Column 2, comas should be added to Line 1 Page 12813, Eq. (5) Page 12813, the equation number of Eq. (9) must be added Page 12817, Eq. (27) must be replaced Page 12818, Eq. (28) must be replaced Page 12818, Column 2, the beginning of the sentence in Line 1 must be replaced Page 12818, Eq. (29) must be replaced Page 12818, Eq. (30) must be replaced Page 12818, Eq. (31) must be replaced[br/° Page 12, the caption of Fig. 5 must be replaced by “Fig. 5 Empirical cumulative distribution function (ECDF) of log10-equilibrium indicators of complexation.....