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Correction

Correction: Aboveground vs. Belowground Carbon Stocks in African Tropical Lowland Rainforest: Drivers and Implications

  • Sebastian Doetterl,
  • Elizabeth Kearsley,
  • Marijn Bauters,
  • Koen Hufkens,
  • Janvier Lisingo,
  • Geert Baert,
  • Hans Verbeeck,
  • Pascal Boeckx

In multiple instances, the unit g kg-1 appears incorrectly. The correct unit in these instances should be mg kg-1. Please see the corrected text and Tables 2 and 3 below.

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Table 2. Physical and chemical soil parameters for both sites and different depthsa.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150681.t001

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Table 3. Quantitative and qualitative litter parameters at both study sitesa.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150681.t002

The sixth sentence of the second paragraph of the Results should read: While the concentration of the base cations Ca and Mg were similar between the study sites (7.4–137.5 ppm), K concentrations in the soil solution were more than doublein YOKO (31.3–68.9 ppm) compared to YGB (14.9–34.2 ppm), and Na concentrations were about 50–70% higher in YOKO (12.0–13.3 ppm) compared to YGB (7.6–7.8 ppm). Nitrate-N (9.68–1.98 mg kg-1), Ammonia-N (9.54–1.95 mg kg-1) and bioavailable P (3.3–8.9 mg kg-1), decreased with soil depth but showed no significant difference (p>0.05) in concentrations between both sites.

The fourth sentence of the third paragraph of the Results should read: While bioavailable P (0.80–0.84 mg kg-1) and Ammonia-N concentrations (0.68–0.63 mg kg-1) were similar for the litter of the different sites, Nitrate-N concentrations were about 86% higher at YOKO (1.98 mg kg-1) compared to YGB (1.06 mg kg-1).

Reference

  1. 1. Doetterl S, Kearsley E, Bauters M, Hufkens K, Lisingo J, Baert G, et al. (2015) Aboveground vs. Belowground Carbon Stocks in African Tropical Lowland Rainforest: Drivers and Implications. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0143209. pmid:26599231

Citation: Doetterl S, Kearsley E, Bauters M, Hufkens K, Lisingo J, Baert G, et al. (2016) Correction: Aboveground vs. Belowground Carbon Stocks in African Tropical Lowland Rainforest: Drivers and Implications. PLoS ONE 11(2): e0150681. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150681

Published: February 26, 2016

Copyright: © 2016 Doetterl et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.