Correction to: The ISME Journal (2014) 9, 497–507; doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.145; published online 15 August 2014

Since the publication of this article, the authors have identified an error in the acknowledgements section of their paper, namely that the following decision numbers were omitted from the funding organization: Academy of Finland (decision numbers 251193 and 258520).

The corrected acknowledgements are as follows:

Acknowledgements

This study was financially supported by the Academy of Finland (decision numbers 251193 and 258520) and the Finnish Forest Research Institute. We thank Marja-Leena Santanen, Juha Puranen, Nieves Lorenzo Gotor, Heidi Ylinenpää, Sonja Sarsila and Suvi Saloranta for technical assistance and Jaana Jurvansuu and Taina Pennanen for commenting on the manuscript.

This has now been added to the acknowledgements, and the corrected article appears in this issue. The html and online pdf versions have also been rectified, and now carry the correct paper.

The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.