Correction to: Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science (2023) 6:861–884 https://doi.org/10.1007/s42081-023-00214-1

The article “Revisiting Alwyn H. Gentry’s forest transect data: latitudinal beta diversity patterns are revealed using a statistical sampling-model-based approach”, written by Anne Chao \(\cdot \) Chun-Huo Chiu \(\cdot \) Kai-Hsiang Hu \(\cdot \) David Zelený was originally published Online First without Open Access. After publication in volume 6, issue 2, page 861–884 the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to ©  The Author(s) 2024 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.

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