Correction to: The ISME Journal (2009) 3, 1004–1011; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.47

Since the publication of this paper, the authors have noticed an error in the accession numbers on page 2. The correct text is shown here.

The authors would like to apologise for this error.

Libraries were built for samples from primary forest (GenBank accession no. FJ024502-024588 and FJ036978-FJ037063), old secondary forest (GenBank accession no. FJ037064-FJ037232), pasture (GenBank accession no. FJ037233-FJ037389) and crops (GenBank accession no. FJ037390-FJ037544) sites.