Correction to: Communications Earth & Environment https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01753-5, published online 23 October 2024

In the version of this article initially published, there was a typographical error in equation (6), where in the equation, now reading in part, \({K}_{D,{{\rm{veg}}}}=\frac{8}{9\pi }k\frac{{\sinh }^{3}\left({kl}_{s}\right) \,+ \, 3 \sinh ({kl}_{s})}{[\sinh (2{kh}) + \left(2{kh}\right.]\sinh \left({kh}\right)}{N}_{s}\), the first “(kls)” in the numerator appeared as “(kll).” The equation has been updated in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.