RETRACTION: R. Royauté, J. N. Pruitt, “Varying Predator Personalities Generates Contrasting Prey Communities In An Agroecosystem,” Ecology 96, no. 11 (2015): 2902–2911, https://doi.org/10.1890/14-2424.1

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The above article, published online on 01 November 2015 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement among the first author, Raphaël Royauté; the journal Editor-in-Chief, Kathryn L. Cottingham; Ecological Society of America; and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. The retraction has been agreed due to data fabrication and duplication. The author contributions were as follows: R.R conducted the analysis, performed conceptual writing and writing; J.N.P. collected the data and performed research. Specifically, there were abnormal numbers of duplicated rows found in two critical portions of the dataset: 1) the activity of the spiders placed into mesocosms of different treatments and 2) the prey abundance at the end of the experiment. Furthermore, the study design and methodology in this manuscript are insufficiently described. Accordingly, the principal conclusions cannot be supported. The first author was unaware of these issues. The authors have been informed of the decision to retract.