Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, 0194 (2017); published online 22 June 2017; corrected online 5 September 2017.

In the version of this Comment previously published, in Box 1, the spacing of the GEDI footprints should have read 60 m along the track, not 25 m. Also the second affiliation for Susan Ustin was incorrect, she is only associated with the University of California, Davis. These errors have now been corrected.