Correction to: Environmental Microbiome (2023) 18:5 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-022-00456-8

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors flagged that the following statement had been omitted in error from the Acknowledgements declaration: "The authors would like to thank Dr. Robert Pfannenstiel and Dr. Mark Ruder for their assistance with identifying the sites used in this study".

The published article has been updated to add the statement. The authors thank you for reading this correction and apologize for any inconvenience caused.