Homogocene
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Etymology
Coined by American ornithologist and ecologist Gordon Orians, apparently from homogenous + -cene.
Proper noun
Homogocene
- (ecology) The current ecological era marked by anthropogenic biotic homogenization, having begun c. 1500 CE.
- Coordinate term: Anthropocene
- 2001 March, Michael L. Rosenzweig, “The four questions: What does the introduction of exotic species do to diversity?”, in Evolutionary Ecology Research, volume 3, number 3, pages 361–367:
- The new shrunken natural world of the Homogocene will have a depressed speciation rate curve that will cost it species diversity in direct proportion to its loss of area.
- 2010, Youssuf Gherbawy, Kerstin Voigt, editors, Molecular Identification of Fungi, Springer Science & Business, →ISBN, page 5:
- So, the Homogocene cannot be said to have begun with the Holocene. Instead, 1500 would appear to be a good year to choose for the beginning of the Homogocene.
See also
Further reading
biotic homogenization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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