Correction to “Patterns of Composition, Richness and Endemicity of Cyperaceae Across Open and Closed Habitats in Madagascar's Central Highlands”

Abstract

Rasaminirina, F., Wieczorkowski, J.D., Rakotoarimanana, V., Rafaralahy, V.L., Rakotonirina, N., Ralimanana, H. and Larridon, I. (2026), Patterns of Composition, Richness and Endemicity of Cyperaceae Across Open and Closed Habitats in Madagascar's Central Highlands. Biotropica, 58: e70160. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70160.

Supplementary Table S5 was inadvertently published as an older version generated from a subset of the data. No changes have been made to the data or code: the complete dataset and R scripts were deposited prior to publication in Figshare (Rasaminirina et al. 2025), already cited in the article. We therefore remove Table S5 and direct readers to the Figshare repository to reproduce the correct co-inertia results. The total inertia reported in Section 3.3 should therefore be 12.1 rather than 17.18.

“Cyperus and Scleria can be found across all three habitat types, whereas Cyperus species are most species-rich in the dry open habitat and Scleria species in the wet open. Bulbostylis occurs in wet open and dry open, of which 80% of species grow in the dry open habitat. Fimbristylis, Rhynchospora and Fuirena also occur in both open habitats, of which respectively 80%, 70% and 80% of the species grow in the wet open habitat. Costularia occur both in closed and dry open habitats, with two (2) inventoried in dry open habitat and one (1) in closed. The unique species of Abildgaardia was found both in dry open and wet open habitats. Each habitat also had unique genera, with the monospecific Coleochloa only found in dry open habitat, Carex in the closed habitat, and Eleocharis and Schoenoplectiella in wet open habitat (Figure 3).”

It should read:

“High Cyperaceae genus richness was observed in both dry open and wet open habitats, with nine present in each, while only four genera (Carex, Costularia, Cyperus, and Scleria) were found in closed habitats, confirming previous research by Cremers and Hoff (1993). Certain genera are specific to a particular habitat type; for instance, Eleocharis and Schoenoplectiella were found exclusively in open habitats, Coleochloa in dry open habitats, and Carex only in closed habitats. This suggests the potential for using Cyperaceae genera as indicator taxa for specific habitat types in Madagascar's Central Highlands. The presence of Cyperus and Scleria across all habitat types, along with genera such as Abildgaardia, Bulbostylis, Fimbristylis, Fuirena, and Rhynchospora in both dry open and wet open or closed and dry open habitats, demonstrates the cosmopolitan nature of the family, justifying its broad distribution range.”

It should read:

“High Cyperaceae genus richness was observed in both dry open and wet open habitats, while only three genera (Carex, Cyperus, and Scleria) were found in closed habitats, confirming previous research by Cremers and Hoff (1993). Certain genera are specific to a particular habitat type; for instance, Eleocharis was found exclusively in wet open habitats, Coleochloa in dry open habitats, and Carex only in closed habitats. This suggests the potential for using Cyperaceae genera as indicator taxa for specific habitat types in Madagascar's Central Highlands. The presence of Cyperus and Scleria across all habitat types, along with genera such as Bulbostylis, Fimbristylis, Fuirena, and Rhynchospora in both dry open and wet open, demonstrates the cosmopolitan nature of the family, justifying its broad distribution range.”

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