Correction to: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-0099-x, published online 27 October 2020.

In the original published article, errors were inadvertently introduced in the calculation of the 137Cs balance for Figure 3. Specifically, fluxes between soil and tree were duplicated for 2018, leading to an overestimation of the radiocesium inventory in the tree body: 21% in the original manuscript (Fig. 3e) instead of 11.2%.

Figure 3b, c, e and f have been updated to reflect the revised 137Cs estimates, and the text discussing radiocesium inventory in deciduous hardwood forest revised from 21% to 11%. These changes do not affect the findings of the Review. These errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the manuscript.