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Precedence: Subject: RE: Metric - its not JUST a function. It's a snappy word! Alright, in my narrow ecological thinking, I've reserved the term metric to refer to community median "niche breadth" and "overlap" as approximated by variance in morphological measurements. For example: "The metrics of these communities are are decoupled..." I'm wondering if "metric" was used correctly, or if "measurement" would have been more correct. Thanks, Clay == Replies will be sent to list. For more information see http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/morphmet.html.
