A colleague alerted me to this today... a predatory publisher has taken original articles from PLoS One, stripped the citations, and packaged them in a book entitled "An Integrated Study Of Marine Mammals".  Consequently, it looks like the citation for these papers is this fraudulent book.  The authors (at least the ones I know) were not contacted nor did they give permission.  The book is for sale at $107 a copy on Amazon (who I've contacted to make them aware of the issue); the publisher itself is charging $150 a copy.  Here's the publisher link... as you can see, they do this a lot:

https://www.syrawoodpublishinghouse.com/homes/books_description?book_id=2128

The "editor" of this volume appears to be completely fictitious.

Below is a listing of first authors and subjects from the 20 chapters of this book... if you've published in PLoS One lately, and you recognize the first authorship, there's a good chance you're in here.

Benoit-Bird: pelagic ecosystems
Meager: marine mammal mortality
Christensen: Recovery trends
Sterling: fur seal migration
Gowan: right whales
Baker: Predator-prey interactions
Braulik: Indus dolphin
Carroll: right whales and whaling
Double: Pygmy blue whales
Matthews: right whale monitoring
Apprill: humpback whale bacteria
Amaral: Clymene dolphin
McMahon: elephant seals
Schorr: Ziphius diving
Wilson: harbor seal foraging
Silva: Bayesian state-space models
Deng: sonar systems and marine mammals
Aguilar: Nitrogen stable isotopes
Peterson: PCB concentrations
Maniscalco: Steller sea lion natality

On a related and more humorous note, my dog recently succeeded in publishing a paper in a predatory journal, co-authored with another dog and a chicken:

A. Wünderlandt, O. Doll and G. Usalida.  2018.  Solicitation of patient consent for bilateral orchiectomy in male canids: Time to rethink the obligatory paradigm.  Examines in Marine Biology and Oceanography 2(1): 1-2,  doi:10.31031/EIMBO.2018.02.000528.

Reprint available on request...!

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Phillip J. Clapham, Ph.D.
Leader, Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program
Marine Mammal Laboratory
Alaska Fisheries Science Center
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