Erratum to: Ecol Res DOI 10.1007/s11284-015-1243-9

The author would like to correct the errors in the publication of the original article. The corrected details are given below for your reading.

The sixth sentence, below the Methods section, under the subheading “Vegetation and environmental variable sampling” in the second paragraph, should read “In total, nine study sites and 36 plots were established within the riparian zone along the river. These were distributed among the three stream types, i.e., 12 plots for perennial, eight for seasonal, and 16 for dried-up.”

In table 3, “%” in “Unit/scale” column for the last row “Sand” should be deleted.