Correction to: Plant Ecol (2020) 221:41–54 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-019-00989-y

The article entitled “Microbial communities associated with distance- and density-dependent seedling mortality in a tropical rainforest”, which is part of the special issue on “Applying microbial communities to improve restoration and conservation outcomes” was published prematurely in Volume 221, Issue 1, January 2020.