Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57491-5, published online 18 March 2025

In the version of the article initially published, ref. 30 included the wrong author list and has now been amended to “Smith, A. J. et al. Identifying potential sources of iron-binding ligands in coastal Antarctic environments and the wider Southern Ocean. Front. Mar. Sci. 9, 948772 (2022)” in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.