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Guilds: the multiple meanings of a concept
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Guilds: the multiple meanings of a concept |
| Creator | Hawkins, Charles P. MacMahon, J. A. |
| Description | Root (161) defined a guild as "a group of species that exploit the same class of environmental resources in a similar way." With this intuitively appealing, seductively simple definition, he commenced the development of what has become a Gordian know of ecological thinking. Root saw the term as a way to group "together species without regard to taxonomic position, that overlap significantly in their niche requirements." He also felt that one advantage to the guild concept was that it "focuses... |
| Date | 1989-01-01T08:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/825 info:doi/10.1146/annurev.en.34.010189.002231 |
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| Source | Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Subject | Guilds multiple meanings concept |
