Correction to: Plant Ecol (2019) 220:977–984 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-019-00967-4

The article entitled “Rethinking soil water repellency and its management”, which is part of the special issue on “Applying microbial communities to improve restoration and conservation outcomes” was published prematurely in Volume 220, Issue 10, October 2019.