Correction: Long-Term Regional Shifts in Plant Community Composition Are Largely Explained by Local Deer Impact Experiments.

Donald Waller,Katie Frerker,Autumn Sabo

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185037

Abstract

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115843.].

Highlights

Upon review of the dataset used in this manuscript, the authors discovered that the abundance data used in two analyses were inadvertently scrambled, resulting in inflated abundance values
In the “Data on 50-year shifts in abundance” section, the first three sentences should read: “To test whether the differences in species abundance that we observed in- vs. outside the exclosures were related to the long-term (1950s to 2001) regional shifts in abundance measured by Wiegmann and Waller [33] over 62 sites, we first calculated the change in abundance across the fence line as the arithmetic difference of each taxon’s frequency in the control browsed plots minus its frequency inside the exclosure plots
In the “Data analyses” section, the last sentence of the first paragraph reads: “We restricted these tests to species that occurred in at least 50 quadrats overall and had expected frequencies greater than five in each treatment.”

Summary

Introduction

Upon review of the dataset used in this manuscript, the authors discovered that the abundance data used in two analyses were inadvertently scrambled, resulting in inflated abundance values.

Results

Conclusion