This is a notice of retraction of the article: Seasonal succession of
crustacean zooplankton in Wular lake of the Kashmir Himalaya, published in
the Archives of Biological Sciences in 2013, Vol. 65, Issue 3. The
Editor-in-Chief has been informed of different degrees of scholarly
misconduct in figures and tables presented in this article. After inspection,
the following issues were revealed: 1) Table 2 contains a subset of the
results described in Table 2 in previously published papers, respectively: I.
Shah J A, Pandit A K. Relation between physico-chemical limnology and
crustacean community in Wular Lake of Kashmir Himalaya. Pak J Biol Sci.
2013;16(19):976-83. DOI:10.3923/pjbs.2013.976.983 II. Shah J A, Pandit A K.
Diversity and Abundance of Cladoceran Zooplankton in Wular Lake, Kashmir
Himalaya. Res J Environ Earth Sci. 2013;5(7):410-7. e-ISSN: 2041-0492 III.
Shah J A, Pandit A K, Shah M. Distribution, diversity and abundance of
copepod zooplankton of Wular Lake, Kashmir Himalaya. J Ecol Nat Environ.
2013;5(2):24-9. DOI:10.5897/JENE12.100 2) Tables 2 and 3 are examples of
duplication of data presented in the previously published paper: Shah J A,
Pandit A K. Relation between physico-chemical limnology and crustacean
community in Wular Lake of Kashmir Himalaya. Pak J Biol Sci.
2013;16(19):976-83. DOI:10.3923/pjbs.2013.976.983 3) Table 3 is a rearranged
presentation of a subset of data presented in Table 2 of the previously
published paper: Shah J A, Pandit A K. Diversity and abundance of cladoceran
zooplankton in Wular Lake, Kashmir Himalaya. Res J Environ Earth Sci.
2013;5(7):410-7. e-ISSN: 2041-0492 After confirmation of these claims, the
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Biological Sciences has decided to retract
the paper immediately. <br><br><font color="red"><b> Link to the retracted
article <u><a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/ABS1303063B">10.2298/ABS1303063B</a></b></u>
Taxonomic survey of crustacean zooplankton in Wular Lake of Kashmir Himalaya
