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.

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

Background: Comparisons of soil carbon (C) pools across land uses can be confounded by site-specific history. To better quantify the response of soil C pools to residential development and use, we compared yard soils (n = 20) to adjacent mown fields and second-growth forests within land-use clusters (LUC; n = 12). Land uses within clusters shared site-specific legacies (land use and other soil forming history) prior to residential development (15-227 years ago).