Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3223, published online 13 February 2017.

In the Supplementary Information PDF published with this Letter, under the heading ‘Keywords used to select the papers for the literature review’, operator (*) use in the search strings is inconsistent and at times incorrect. In addition, the full list of references shortlisted from the Web of Science search criteria used in this study was not provided. The amended PDF is available as Supplementary Information to this Correction; those references not cited in the main paper and Methods have been included: refs 59–124 relate to mammals and refs 125–190 to birds.