Correction to: Bot Stud (2017) 58:49 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40529-017-0205-7

Unfortunately, the original article (Huang et al. 2017) contained some errors. Figure 4 displayed incorrectly. The correct Fig. 4 can be found below:

Fig. 4
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Linear relationships of annual soil respiration with a elevation, b mean annual temperature, c litterfall, and d mean annual precipitation in Taiwan. Black circles refer to the current study and red triangles refer to previous studies (Chang et al. 2001; Kuo and Chang 2009; Hsieh et al. 2016)