Trivial pursuits
Populations and Evolution
2019-06-14 v1
Abstract
We demonstrate that the conclusions drawn by Bernhard et al. (2018) regarding the ability of nonlinear averaging to accurately predict organismal performance under fluctuating temperatures are flawed because of a series of experimental and statistical issues that include the presence of a hidden treatment effect, the use of a single low frequency temperature fluctuation that could easily be tracked by the fast growing organism, and the decision to quantify performance via population growth rate, a metric that can mask significant variation in population size.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1904.03675,
title = {Trivial pursuits},
author = {Tarik C. Gouhier and Pradeep Pillai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.03675},
year = {2019}
}