Biol. Lett. 9, 20130540 (Published 14 August 2013). (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0540)
Herewith, we retract our paper ‘How many and which ant species are being accidentally moved around the world?’ by Verónica Miravete et al., published online on 23 October 2013 (Biol. Lett. 9, 20130540; doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0540). After careful examination of the original data on introduced and established ants on regions worldwide, we realized that we used a wrong list of species and omitted to include a reference (Sarnat E. (2012) North America checklist. Antkey <http://antkey.org>. Extracted 3 June 2014) in the paper. Although the main arguments and conclusions remain the same after correcting these errors, the use of the wrong version of the data affected the magnitude of the analyses conducted at the country level (in the electronic supplementary material) and, to a lesser extent, when all countries were considered together (in the main text). Therefore, we wish to retract the article. We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this publication might have caused to the readers of Biology Letters.
Verónica Miravete
Facultat de Ciències, Departament de Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, 17071 Girona, Catalonia, Spain
e-mail: veronica.miravete@gmail.com
Núria Roura-Pascual
Facultat de Ciències, Departament de Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, 17071 Girona, Catalonia, Spain
e-mail: nrourapascual@gmail.com
Robert R. Dunn
Department of Biology, The W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7617, USA
e-mail: rroberdeaudunn@gmail.com
Crisanto Gómez
Facultat de Ciències, Departament de Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, 17071 Girona, Catalonia, Spain
e-mail: crisanto.gomez@udg.edu