TY - JOUR
AU1 - Hawkins, C P
AU2 - MacMahon, J A
AB -  Root environmental (161) defined a guild as "a group of species that exploit the same class of resources in a similar way . " With this intuitively appealing, seductively simple definition, he commenced the development of what has become a Gordian knot 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 attention on all sympatric species involved in a competitive interaction, regardless of their taxonomic relation­ ship" Nearly (161, p. 335). 20 years later, Terborgh & Robinson (195, p. 90) cited the concept of guild as the new perspective in ecology: "Guilds will become the standard currency of ecologists in their efforts to understand community relationships of many kinds." Yet few authors have critically examined the implications of Root's definition or provided an operational definition for it in their studies. Also, many authors have developed meanings for the term that seem quite different from Root's emphasis and intent. For example, Balon term to classify "reproductive styles in fish, while Bambach " (6) used the (7) used charac423 
TI - Guilds: The Multiple Meanings of a Concept
JF - Annual Review of Entomology
DO - 10.1146/annurev.en.34.010189.002231
DA - 1989-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/annual-reviews/guilds-the-multiple-meanings-of-a-concept-OO7DML0b0w
SP - 423
EP - 451
VL - 34
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -