Homogocene

English

Alternative forms

• Homogenocene

Etymology

Coined by American ornithologist and ecologist Gordon Orians, apparently from homogenous +‎ -cene.

Proper noun

Homogocene

1. (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.

   • 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

• New Pangaea

Further reading

• biotic homogenization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia