Correction to: Building houses and managing lawns could limit yard soil carbon for centuries.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Correction to: Carbon Balance Manage (2019) 14:9 10.1186/s13021-019-0124-x

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors noticed an error in the first paragraph of the Site selection subsection. The text should read, “a cool temperate forested region (mean annual 7.8 °C; 992 mm precipitation)”, instead of “a cool temperate forested region (mean annual 28 °C; 840 mm precipitation)”.