Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02626-y, published online 5 March 2025.

In the version of this article originally published, the affiliation listed for Kate J. Helmstedt (Securing Antartica’s Environmental Future, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) was incomplete, while the acknowledgments did not include thanks for ARC SRIEAS grant SR200100005 to Kate J. Helmstedt. The affiliation and acknowledgements are amended in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.