Correction: Climate change versus deforestation: Implications for tree species distribution in the dry forests of southern Ecuador.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190092.].

There is an error in the first sentence of the second paragraph in the Introduction section. The correct sentence is: Ecuador, one of the ten most biodiversity-rich nations in the world [11, 12], has one-sixth of its territory covered by deciduous and semi-deciduous forests [13] with a reported national deforestation rate of approximately 475 km2/year during 2008–2014 [14].