Proc. R. Soc. B 285, 20180384. (Published Online 25 July 2018). (doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.0384)
The Proceedings B Editorial Team and the Royal Society are retracting the article ‘Predator macroevolution drives trophic cascades and ecosystem functioning’ by D. Start [1].
Following the publication of this article, the journal was made aware of potential problems with the paper. An investigation raised questions over inconsistencies in the paper and missing or incomplete archived data. There were also concerns over the relationship between data published in this paper and that in another paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science by Start et al. [2], in particular that the same data values were presented as individual values in this paper but as means of larger samples in the other paper.
As the author was not able to address the concerns, Proceedings B has concluded that results drawn from the data cannot be considered reliable.
For these reasons, the journal has decided to retract the article.
References
- 1.Start D. 2018. Predator macroevolution drives trophic cascades and ecosystem functioning. Proc. R. Soc. B 285, 20180384. ( 10.1098/rspb.2018.0384) [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] [Retracted]
- 2.Start D, McCauley S, Gilbert B. 2018. Physiology underlies the assembly of ecological communities. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 115, 6016-6021. ( 10.1073/pnas.1802091115) [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] [Retracted]