Publisher Correction: Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference (Nature Communications, (2023), 14, 1, (2607), 10.1038/s41467-023-37194-5)
Dee, Laura E; Ferraro, Paul J; Severen, Christopher N; Kimmel, Kaitlin A; Borer, Elizabeth T; Byrnes, Jarrett E K; Clark, Adam Thomas; Hautier, Yann; Hector, Andrew; Raynaud, Xavier; Reich, Peter B; Wright, Alexandra J; Arnillas, Carlos A; Davies, Kendi F; MacDougall, Andrew; Mori, Akira S; Smith, Melinda D; Adler, Peter B; Bakker, Jonathan D; Brauman, Kate A; Cowles, Jane; Komatsu, Kimberly; Knops, Johannes M H; McCulley, Rebecca L; Moore, Joslin L; Morgan, John W; Ohlert, Timothy; Power, Sally A; Sullivan, Lauren L; Stevens, Carly; Loreau, Michel
(2023) Nature Communications, volume 14, issue 1
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The original version of this Article contained errors in the Methods section ‘Target causal effect’, in which terms were omitted from the mathematical definitions of the causal effect and average causal effect. These sentences incorrectly read “The causal effect of a change in richness from R′ to R″ on productivity
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P in plot i is defined as [(R″) − (R′)], where Pi(R″) is the potential productivity outcome when R = R″ and P(R′) is the potential productivity outcome when R = R′ (R′ ≠ R″).” and “The average causal effect of a change in biodiversity from R′ to R″ across all plots is [(R″) − P(R′)], where E[·] is the expectation operator.”. The correct version states “[Pi(R′′) − Pi(R′)]” in place of “[(R″) − (R′)]”, “Pi (R′)” in place of “P (R′)”, and “E[Pi(R′′) − Pi(R′)]” in place of “[(R″) − P(R′)]”. This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.
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Keywords: Biodiversity, Community ecology, Ecological modelling, Grassland ecology, Physics and Astronomy(all), Chemistry(all), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
ISSN: 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
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