Homogocene
English
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editCoined by American ornithologist and ecologist Gordon Orians, apparently from homogenous + -cene.
Proper noun
editHomogocene
- (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[1], 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.
See also
editFurther reading
edit- biotic homogenization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia