Sean Nee is at the AFRC Unit of Ecology and Behaviour, Dept of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.
Trends Ecol Evol. 1990 Oct;5(10):337-40. doi: 10.1016/0169-5347(90)90182-D.
Communities are naturally constructed over time by a process of species invasion and elimination. The construction process itself, which until very recently has received little attention, may be of fundamental importance to understanding community attributes such as stability, which have received a lot of attention. So the study of community construction should become a rewarding field of mainstream ecological research.
群落是自然形成的，是物种入侵和灭绝过程的产物。这个形成过程本身直到最近才引起人们的关注，但它可能对理解群落属性（如稳定性）至关重要，因为稳定性一直是生态学家关注的焦点。因此，群落构建的研究应该成为主流生态学研究中一个有价值的领域。
