Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, 1551–1561 (2017); published online 4 September 2017.

In the version of this Article previously published, there was a typographical error (‘4’ instead of ‘2’) in the equations relating F ST and effective population size (N e) in the Methods section ‘Genome-wide scan for selection based on temporal differentiation’. The correct equations are given below.

$${F}_{{\rm{ST}}}\approx \frac{T}{T+2}=\frac{\tau }{\tau +2{N}_{{\rm{e}}}}$$
$${\hat{N}}_{{\rm{e}}}=\frac{\tau (1-{\hat{\bar{F}}}_{{\rm{ST}}})}{2{\hat{\bar{F}}}_{{\rm{ST}}}}$$

All the calculations and results presented in the Article were obtained using these correct equations and need no amendment. The conclusions of our study are therefore in no way affected.