Correction to: Ecol Res https://doi.org/10.1007/s11284-018-1614-0

The article “A paradox of latitudinal leaf defense strategies in deciduous and evergreen broadleaved trees”, written by Saihanna Saihanna, Tomoe Tanaka, Yu Okamura, Buntarou Kusumoto, Takayuki Shiono, Toshihide Hirao, Yasuhiro Kubota, and Masashi Murakami, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 01 June 2018 without open access.

With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 25 July 2018 to © The Author(s) 2018 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

The original article has been corrected.