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Adventitious vs Anthropochory - What's the difference?

adventitious | anthropochory |

In biology|lang=en terms the difference between adventitious and anthropochory

is that adventitious is (biology) developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source while anthropochory is (biology) the (typically inadvertent and sporadic) dispersal by humans, of seeds, spores, or other reproductive botanical material, or of reproductively capable animals, into a region where they do not natively occur, resulting in adventitious anthropochorous establishment of an alien population if successful.

As an adjective adventitious

is from an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.

As a noun anthropochory is

(biology) the (typically inadvertent) dispersal of seeds, spores, or other reproductive botanical material, or of reproductively capable animals, by humans as a routine means of reproductive dispersal of that species.

adventitious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
  • Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 30:
  • The adventitious disappearance of those nearer the the throne than the duke had, moreover, set tongues awagging.
  • (genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
  • (biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
  • * 1985 , , H. T. Clifford, & P. F. Yeo, The Families of the Monocotyledons , page 101
  • The Velloziaceae have evolved a woody stem which is covered with a layer of adventitious roots mingled with the fibres of the old leaf sheaths;

    Synonyms

    * (from an external source) extrinsic * accidental, spontaneous, sporadic * (not congenital) acquired

    Derived terms

    * adventitiously * adventitiousness

    anthropochory

    Noun

    (-)
  • (biology) The (typically inadvertent) dispersal of seeds, spores, or other reproductive botanical material, or of reproductively capable animals, by humans as a routine means of reproductive dispersal of that species.
  • (biology) The (typically inadvertent and sporadic) dispersal by humans, of seeds, spores, or other reproductive botanical material, or of reproductively capable animals, into a region where they do not natively occur, resulting in adventitious anthropochorous establishment of an alien population if successful.
  • * Paul F. Hendrix:
  • *:Stephenson stressed the importance of anthropochory in earthworm dispersal. Human introductions, either intentional or unconscious, play a key role in earthworm invasions, as is well demonstrated by the presence of European Lumbricidae in North America, Asia, New Zealand...Paul F. Hendrix. Biological Invasions Belowground: Earthworms as Invasive Species. Springer. isbn: 978-1-4020-5429-7
  • Derived terms

    * anthropochore * anthropochorous

    References