Guild (ecology)

A guild (or ecological guild) is any group of species that exploit the same resources, or that exploit different resources in related ways.^[1]^[2]^[3] It is not necessary that the species within a guild occupy the same, or even similar, ecological niches.^[a]

^ Simberloff, D.; Dayan, T. (1991). "The guild concept and the structure of ecological communities". Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 22: 115–143. doi:10.1146/annurev.es.22.110191.000555.
^ "guilds". Encyclopædia Britannica. Community ecology.
^ Williams, S.E.; Hero, J.M. (1998). "Rainforest frogs of the Australian wet tropics: Guild classification and the ecological similarity of declining species". Proceedings: Biological Sciences. 265 (1396): 597–602. doi:10.1098/rspb.1998.0336. PMC 1689015. PMID 9881468.
^ "Ecological niche". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2 May 2017.

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[1] Simberloff, D.; Dayan, T. (1991). "The guild concept and the structure of ecological communities". Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 22: 115–143. doi:10.1146/annurev.es.22.110191.000555.

[2] "guilds". Encyclopædia Britannica. Community ecology.

[3] Williams, S.E.; Hero, J.M. (1998). "Rainforest frogs of the Australian wet tropics: Guild classification and the ecological similarity of declining species". Proceedings: Biological Sciences. 265 (1396): 597–602. doi:10.1098/rspb.1998.0336. PMC 1689015. PMID 9881468.

[4] "Ecological niche". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2 May 2017.

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Guild (ecology)

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