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6 citations · 13 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

q-bio.PE20191 cited

Not even wrong: Reply to Loreau and Hector

Pradeep Pillai, Tarik C. Gouhier

The Loreau and Hector (2019) Comment on our paper (Pillai and Gouhier, 2019) failed to address the two core elements of our critique, both the circularity of the BEF research progr…

q-bio.PE20191 cited

Not even wrong: Reply to Wagg et al

Pradeep Pillai, Tarik C. Gouhier

We demonstrate that the issues described in the Wagg et al. (2019) Comment on our paper (Pillai and Gouhier, 2019) are all due to misunderstandings about the implications of pairwi…

q-bio.PE20196 cited

Trivial pursuits

Tarik C. Gouhier, Pradeep Pillai

We demonstrate that the conclusions drawn by Bernhard et al. (2018) regarding the ability of nonlinear averaging to accurately predict organismal performance under fluctuating temp…

q-bio.PE20193 cited

No evidence of fish biodiversity effects on coral reef ecosystem functioning across scales

Tarik C. Gouhier, Pradeep Pillai

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 be…

q-bio.PE20182 cited

On the use and abuse of Price equation concepts in ecology

Pradeep Pillai, Tarik C. Gouhier

In biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) research, the Loreau-Hector (LH) statistical scheme is widely-used to partition the effect of biodiversity on ecosystem properties i…

q-bio.PE2018

Not even wrong: The spurious link between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

Pradeep Pillai, Tarik C. Gouhier

Resolving the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has been one of the central goals of modern ecology. Early debates about the relationship were finally res…