Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 18140; published online: 05 January 2016; updated: 08 March 2016

The original version of this Article contained an error in the Abstract.

“These considerations give a new perspective on previous results perspective, and suggest that studies of biotic effects on GHG emissions from dung pats on a global scale are a priority for current research.”

now reads:

“These considerations give a new perspective on previous results, and suggest that studies of biotic effects on GHG emissions from dung pats on a global scale are a priority for current research.”

This has now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.