The guild concept and the structure of ecological communities

D Simberloff, T Dayan - Annual review of ecology and systematics, 1991 - JSTOR
A guild is defined as a group of species that exploit the same class of environmental
resources in a similar way. This term groups together species without regard to taxonomic …

Impact of heavy metals and nanoparticles on aquatic biota

SK Kahlon, G Sharma, JM Julka, A Kumar… - Environmental chemistry …, 2018 - Springer
Human activities such as industrialisation, urbanisation and agriculture have adversely
impacted terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Water pollutants such as heavy metals and …

FUNGuild: an open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild

NH Nguyen, Z Song, ST Bates, S Branco, L Tedersoo… - Fungal ecology, 2016 - Elsevier
Fungi typically live in highly diverse communities composed of multiple ecological guilds.
Although high-throughput sequencing has greatly increased the ability to quantify the …

Functional diversity (FD), species richness and community composition

OL Petchey, KJ Gaston - Ecology letters, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Functional diversity is an important component of biodiversity, yet in comparison to
taxonomic diversity, methods of quantifying functional diversity are less well developed …

Landscape filters and species traits: towards mechanistic understanding and prediction in stream ecology

NLR Poff - Journal of the north american Benthological …, 1997 - journals.uchicago.edu
A heuristic framework for understanding and predicting the distribution and categorical
abundance of species in stream communities is presented. The framework requires that …

Global patterns of guild composition and functional diversity of spiders

P Cardoso, S Pekár, R Jocqué, JA Coddington - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The objectives of this work are:(1) to define spider guilds for all extant families worldwide;(2)
test if guilds defined at family level are good surrogates of species guilds;(3) compare the …

Multiple trophic levels of a forest stream linked to terrestrial litter inputs

JB Wallace, SL Eggert, JL Meyer, JR Webster - Science, 1997 - science.org
The importance of terrestrial-aquatic linkages was evaluated by a large-scale, 3-year
exclusion of terrestrial leaf litter inputs to a forest stream. Exclusion of leaf litter had a strong …

The role of benthic invertebrate species in freshwater ecosystems: zoobenthic species influence energy flows and nutrient cycling

AP Covich, MA Palmer, TA Crowl - BioScience, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Small invertebrates are function-ally important in many terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
(Wilson 1992, Freckman et al. 1997, Palmer et al. 1997, Postel and Carpenter 1997). In …

[LIVRE][B] Insect ecology: an ecosystem approach

TD Schowalter - 2022 - books.google.com
Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, Fifth Edition provides the most updated and
comprehensive knowledge of the diversity of insect responses to environmental changes …

Intraguild predation: the dynamics of complex trophic interactions

GA Polis, RD Holt - Trends in ecology & evolution, 1992 - cell.com
Although ubiquitous, IGP has historically been less well integrated into the conceptual
framework of ecology than competition and predation considered separately, except in …