Dept of Zoology and Graduate Program in Ecology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
Trends Ecol Evol. 1990 May;5(5):159-64. doi: 10.1016/0169-5347(90)90223-Z.
Because of its unwieldy complexity, understanding organization at the community level has been an elusive, often frustrating enterprise. This survey concentrates on the assembly process itself, and examines whether there are mechanics to community assembly that provide the foundation for a general theory of organization at the community level.
由于其复杂的结构，理解社区层面的组织一直是一个难以捉摸、常常令人沮丧的事情。本调查集中在组装过程本身，并研究是否有社区组装的机制为社区层面的组织的一般理论提供了基础。
