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[Steve Diver <steved@ncatark.uark.edu>]

Thanks for the comparison on terminologies, Toby.

The primary reason I posted the resource listings
for  "Guilds + Shrubs in Tropical Forest Ecosystems: India"
was the Shrub publication.   It was a rare find deep inside
a website, it had the ecological and botanical materials on
shrubs, and it was a resource on agriculture and botany of
India which is a topic that I follow.  People can also look
at the publication as a model and realize there may be similar
botanical literature for their own bioregion.

The permaculture guild angle is something I'm very interested
in.  I would like to see discussion on permaculture guilds.

Steve Diver


Toby Hemenway wrote:

> Just wanted to point out that permaculturists use the word "guild" in a
> different way than do ecologists. The listing that Steve sent in refers to
> the ecologist's guilds, which are species that have similar requirements or
> that fill a similar niche (e.g., a guild of shade-tolerant trees or
> seed-eating birds). Permaculture's guilds, of species that support one
> another but don't necessarily have similar requirements, is just similar
> enough to be confusing.
>
> So if you do a search for guilds on the web, you'll likely come up with
> ecologist's guilds, not permaculture's. A guild of nut-eating monkey species
> might not be a very useful one for your landscape.
>
> Toby
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