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Erratum: How many and which ant species are being accidentally moved around the world (Biology Letters (2013) 9 :(20130540) doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0540)

Es tracta de la correcció de l’article original publicat a Biology Letters, 2013, vol. 9, núm. 5, p. 20130540

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 . 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

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Manager: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Espanya)
Author: Gomez, Crisanto
Miravete, Verònica
Roura i Pascual, Núria
Dunn, Robert R
Gómez López, Crisanto
Abstract: Es tracta de la correcció de l’article original publicat a Biology Letters, 2013, vol. 9, núm. 5, p. 20130540
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 . 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
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/2072/299095
Language: eng
Publisher: The Royal Society
Rights: Tots els drets reservats
Subject: Invasions biològiques
Biological invasions
Animals invasors
Introduced organisms
Espècies introduïdes
Introduced organisms
Title: Erratum: How many and which ant species are being accidentally moved around the world (Biology Letters (2013) 9 :(20130540) doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0540)
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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