Corrigendum to: Classifying relationships that define interactions between native and invasive species in Australian ecosystems

This article corrects Australian Journal of Zoology, 2022, 70(1), 22–35. doi:10.1071/ZO22011

The authors wish to make the following changes to address concerns about the portrayal of Indigenous peoples in their paper and apologise for any offense that the paper may have caused. The following changes were approved by the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Indigenous Services.

In the Introduction, we have changed the first sentence of the third paragraph from:

Australian ecosystems have undergone significant changes through the arrival of both Indigenous Australian and European settlements, including the introduction of associated species (Flannery 2002; Prowse et al. 2014).

to:

Australian ecosystems have undergone significant changes through the arrival of humans and the introduction of species associated with their arrival (Flannery 2002; Prowse et al. 2014).

In the section ‘Invasion timeline’, we have changed the first two sentences from:

Within the Pleistocene, humans were the first alien mammals whose arrival in Australia resulted in an observable effect on the ecosystem (Fig. 1) (Saltré et al. 2016). The next significant introduction was the dingo, arriving as camp dogs with Asiatic seafarers approximately 4000 years ago (Prowse et al. 2014).

to:

Within the Pleistocene, humans were the first mammals whose arrival in Australia resulted in an observable effect on the ecosystem (Saltré et al. 2016). The next significant introduction was the dingo, arriving as camp dogs with Asiatic seafarers approximately 4000 years ago (Fig. 1) (Prowse et al. 2014).

Fig. 1 has been replaced with the following revised figure: