This document is a correction notice for an article published in PLOS ONE. The correction states that the authors of the article did not cite a preprint of a similar article published by Palacio et al. in Diversity and Distributions. Both articles address similar research questions and use different methods to build species distribution maps. The PLOS ONE study included more details and discussion of limitations compared to the Diversity and Distributions study. The authors of the correction notice are listed at the end.