Guild ecological

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Thus, both methodologies are useful for identifying morphological patterns underlying different ecological guilds (or other biological entities), and should be considered as complementary. 

In this paper the phrase functional types and functional groups are used in a similar sense to functional attributes (Gillison and Carpenter, 1997), vital characteristics (Noble and Gitay, 1996 Roberts, 1996), vital attributes (Noble and Slatyer, 1980) and possibly ecological guilds (Brzeziecki and Kienast, 1994) the term has been defined as those biotic components of ecosystems that perform the same function or set of functions within the ecosystem (Smith et al., 1997). 

Hairston, N. G., 1981, An experimental test of a guild Salamander competition. Ecology, 62 65. 

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