1 Correction to: Environmental and Ecological Statistics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10651-022-00541-8

The original version of this paper erroneously reported the tables' layout, compromising the paper reading and results' visualisation.

Below is reported the proper layout of Tables 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, and A6.

Table 1 Direct and indirect effects of different model specifications
Table 3 Descriptive statistics
Table 4 Spatial dependence tests
Table 5 Estimates of spatial models using first order binary contiguity matrix, row-standardised
Table 6 Direct, indirect and total effects of spatial models using first order binary contiguity matrix, row-standardised