Correction to: ‘Sexual dimorphism in a top predator (Notophthalmus viridescens) drives aquatic prey community assembly’

Proc. R. Soc. B 285, 20181717. (Published 7 November 2018). (doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.1717)

In our original article, we inadvertently overstated the novelty of our work. Specifically, we argued that our manuscript was the first to experimentally link patterns of sexual dimorphism to changes in prey community composition. In fact, Fryxell et al. [1] used a mesocosm approach similar to our own that linked sex-ratio manipulations of mosquito fish to trophic cascades in their aquatic communities. Fryxell et al. [1] was not, however, the first test of the idea that sexual dimorphism may influence the structure of ecological communities, as an old and rich body of correlative studies do so (e.g. [2–4]), a point we acknowledged in our original paper. Thus, our work adds to a growing number of recently published studies (including in plants; [5,6]) that together indicate that sex differences may have important consequences for ecological communities across a wide range of taxa and ecological settings.