RETRACTED: Impacts of past climate variability on marine ecosystems: Lessons from sediment records

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief and Author. Please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).Reason: Paragraph 3.3 of this article contains text (verbatim) that had already appeared in a book chapter “Variability from scales in marine sediments and other historical records” by David B. Field, Tim R. Baumgartner, Vicente Ferreira, Dimitri Gutierrez, Hector Lozano-Montes, Renato Salvatteci and Andy Soutar. The book is entitled “Climate Change and Small Pelagic Fish“, 2009, edited by Dave Checkley, Claude Roy, Jurgen Alheit, and Yoshioki Oozeki (Cambridge University Press; 2009).The authors would like to apologize for this administrative error on their part.