At the same time Clements was right. 同時(shí),克萊門(mén)茨也是對的。
Since a forest could reseed itself on an abandoned Michigan field, Clements portrayed that act as reproduction, a further characteristic of an organism. 由于森林自身就能在荒廢的密歇根田地里再次播種,克萊門(mén)茨將其描述為繁殖,這是生物體更深層次的特性。