Retraction
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Retraction: Predation selectively culls medium-sized species from island mammal faunas
Retraction
Biology Letters Editorial Team
Cite this article: Hanna E, Cardillo M. 2016 Retraction: Predation selectively culls medium-sized species from island mammal faunas. Biol. Lett. 12: 20160661. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0661
Biol. Lett. 10, 20131066 (Published online 2 April 2014). (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013. 1066) Following publication of the article ‘Predation selectively culls mediumsized species from island mammal faunas’ in Biology Letters (Biol. Lett. 10, 20131066, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.1066), the publisher was made aware of errors in the database. The authors constructed a new database that corrected all of the known errors, removed records from an unpublished Northern Territory Government source, and added a number of new records from the literature. The new database, with a full description of its construction, will be published in a forthcoming correction article in Global Ecology and Biogeography. On repeating the analyses using the new data, a new conclusion was reached that indicates island extinction patterns are more biased towards larger sizes, rather than intermediate sizes. Given that the main conclusion of the original paper is no longer supported, the editors have decided to retract the article. The new analyses and results will be published elsewhere. The errors in the original database resulted from honest mistakes, and there is no suggestion of any author misconduct. Despite numerous attempts to contact Emily Hanna, she could not be reached. This retraction is therefore signed by Marcel Cardillo on behalf of both authors. Dr Marcel Cardillo Macroevolution and Macroecology Group, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Building 116, Daley Road, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia email: [email protected] Prof. Richard Battarbee FRS Editor-in-Chief, Biology Letters Surayya Johar Publishing Editor, Biology Letters
An expression of concern for this paper has previously been published and can be viewed at http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0821.
& 2016 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved.
rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org
Retraction: Predation selectively culls medium-sized species from island mammal faunas
Retraction
Biology Letters Editorial Team
Cite this article: Hanna E, Cardillo M. 2016 Retraction: Predation selectively culls medium-sized species from island mammal faunas. Biol. Lett. 12: 20160661. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0661
Biol. Lett. 10, 20131066 (Published online 2 April 2014). (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013. 1066) Following publication of the article ‘Predation selectively culls mediumsized species from island mammal faunas’ in Biology Letters (Biol. Lett. 10, 20131066, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.1066), the publisher was made aware of errors in the database. The authors constructed a new database that corrected all of the known errors, removed records from an unpublished Northern Territory Government source, and added a number of new records from the literature. The new database, with a full description of its construction, will be published in a forthcoming correction article in Global Ecology and Biogeography. On repeating the analyses using the new data, a new conclusion was reached that indicates island extinction patterns are more biased towards larger sizes, rather than intermediate sizes. Given that the main conclusion of the original paper is no longer supported, the editors have decided to retract the article. The new analyses and results will be published elsewhere. The errors in the original database resulted from honest mistakes, and there is no suggestion of any author misconduct. Despite numerous attempts to contact Emily Hanna, she could not be reached. This retraction is therefore signed by Marcel Cardillo on behalf of both authors. Dr Marcel Cardillo Macroevolution and Macroecology Group, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Building 116, Daley Road, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia email: [email protected] Prof. Richard Battarbee FRS Editor-in-Chief, Biology Letters Surayya Johar Publishing Editor, Biology Letters
An expression of concern for this paper has previously been published and can be viewed at http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0821.
& 2016 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved.
