Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2566-4Published online 12 August 2020

In the main text of this Article, ‘whole-soil-profile’ should be added to the sentence “Here we present results from the first whole-soil-profile warming experiment in a tropical forest (SWELTR: Soil Warming Experiment in Lowland Tropical Rainforest)”. The omission occurred during final editing and the correction recognises a contemporaneous experiment in Puerto Rico1, which warms using above-ground infrared heaters2. The original Article has been corrected online.