No evidence of fish biodiversity effects on coral reef ecosystem functioning across scales
Populations and Evolution
2019-06-07 v2
Abstract
We demonstrate that the conclusions drawn by Lefcheck et al. (2019) regarding the positive effects of fish diversity on coral reef ecosystem functioning across scales are flawed because of a series of conceptual and statistical issues that include spurious correlations, the conflation of population size and species diversity effects and a failure to recognize that observing a biodiversity effect at multiple sites is not equivalent to observing it at multiple scales.
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@article{arxiv.1904.02049,
title = {No evidence of fish biodiversity effects on coral reef ecosystem functioning across scales},
author = {Tarik C. Gouhier and Pradeep Pillai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.02049},
year = {2019}
}