Merging after remove silence

I am working with a fellow who is using DP and when we were talking about DP's Strip Silence, SONAR has Remove Silence. DP then uses Merge to put the clips back together sans noise. I told him I use bounce to track to do that, he said these are different processes.
My question is, is there a merge function in SONAR equivalent to DP's or was I right about bounce to track? If there is a merge function what is it called and where is it?
anyone...? Thanks!

I think you can just uncheck "Split Clips" in the Remove Silence dialog box when applying the effect.
As for bouncing and merging, Studio One has both (IIRC). Merging clips only generates a seemingly single clip, but it still contains the original clips in editing mode (IIRC). Not sure if it's the same in DP.

How does "Bounce to clips" actually work with audio tracks after "Remove silence"??
Before the edit the silent parts are audio, even though silent, taking the same amount of disc space as any audio.
After removing silence there is lots of gaps between clips. If you now bounce to clips and then save under a new name
copying all audio with the project, what is the true size of the audio files? Is the silent clip area between waveforms
just visual addition, or is there  automatically generated silent audio through the clip.
 
IIRC, originally the idea behind "Remove Silence" was for a great deal  freeing disc space. In a normal Project you could have several CDs worth of silent audio filling the disc and taxing CPU. 15 years ago that was a significant waste of resources.
 
Or am I confused by missing something obvious?

The reason for removing whitespace (silience) and using regions & clips is because it makes a file more efficient to work with. Allows you use more resources at one time, has easier editing and generally speaking much less fuss. The fact you have to confirm which is a clip and what is just a shortened audio part allows flexibility when still deciding on final mix decisions.