Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33046-1, published online 03 October 2018

This Article contains errors in the Results section.

“In the 2000s (Fig. 3a), the country experienced frequent mass mortalities (a total of 30.2 million herds died, which equals 80 million sheep units, SU), with most severe mortality occuring in 2000 through 2002 and 2010 winters.”

should read:

“In the 2000s (Fig. 3a), the country experienced frequent mass mortalities (a total of 30.2 million herds died, which equals 57.4 million sheep units, SU), with most severe mortality occurring in 2000 through 2002 and 2010 winters.”

“As a result, the POPpre rapidly increased, doubling doubling from 25 million heads in 1990 to 52 million in 2014 (Fig. 3e).”

should read:

“As a result, the POPpre rapidly increased, doubling from 25 million heads in 1990 to 52 million in 2014 (Fig. 3e).”