www.nature.com/scientificdata OPEN Author Correction: A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, Published: xx xx xxxx environment and space Alienor Jeliazkov , Darko Mijatovic, Stéphane Chantepie, Nigel Andrew , Raphaël Arlettaz, Luc Barbaro , Nadia Barsoum, Alena Bartonova , Elena Belskaya, Núria Bonada , Anik Brind’Amour, Rodrigo Carvalho , Helena Castro , Damian Chmura , Philippe Choler, Karen Chong-Seng, Daniel Cleary , Anouk Cormont, William Cornwell , Ramiro de Campos , Nicole de Voogd, Sylvain Doledec , Joshua Drew, Frank Dziock, Anthony Eallonardo, Melanie J. Edgar , Fábio Farneda , Domingo Flores Hernandez, Cédric Frenette-Dussault, Guillaume Fried , Belinda Gallardo , Heloise Gibb, Thiago Gonçalves-Souza , Janet Higuti, Jean-Yves Humbert, Boris R. Krasnov , Eric Le Saux, Zoe Lindo , Adria Lopez-Baucells , Elizabeth Lowe, Bryndis Marteinsdottir, Koen Martens , Peter Meffert, Andres Mellado-Díaz , Myles H. M. Menz, Christoph F. J. Meyer , Julia Ramos Miranda, David Mouillot, Alessandro Ossola , Robin Pakeman, Sandrine Pavoine, Burak Pekin, Joan Pino, Arnaud Pocheville , Francesco Pomati , Peter Poschlod, Honor C. Prentice , Oliver Purschke, Valerie Raevel , Triin Reitalu, Willem Renema, Ignacio Ribera , Natalie Robinson, Bjorn Robroek , Ricardo Rocha , Sen-Her Shieh, Rebecca Spake, Monika Staniaszek-Kik, Michal Stanko, Francisco Leonardo Tejerina-Garro , Cajo ter Braak , Mark C. Urban, Roel van Klink , Sébastien Villéger , Ruut Wegman, Martin J. Westgate , Jonas Wolff , Jan Żarnowiec, Maxim Zolotarev & Jonathan M. Chase Correction to: Scientific Data https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0344-7, published online 08 January 2020 Following publication of this Data Descriptor it was found that the affiliation of Oliver Purschke was stated incor- rectly. The correct affiliations are stated below: Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sölvegatan 37, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 37, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden This has been corrected in both the HTML and PDF versions. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, 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 Cre- ative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not per- mitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. © The Author(s) 2020 Scientific Data | (2020) 7:79 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0420-z 1