Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3326 (2017); published online 26 June 2017.

In the version of this Article originally published, the potential carbon loss from soils as a result of mangrove deforestation was incorrectly given as ‘2.0–75 Tg C yr–1’; this should have read ‘2–8 Tg C yr–1’. The corresponding emissions were incorrectly given as ‘~7.3–275 Tg of CO2e’; this should have read ‘~7–29 Tg of CO2e’. The corresponding percentage equivalent of these emissions compared with those from global terrestrial deforestation was incorrectly given as ‘0.2–6%’; this should have read ‘0.6–2.4%’. These errors have now been corrected in all versions of the Article.