Anthropochorous vs Anthropochory - What's the difference?
anthropochorous | anthropochory |
(of fauna, or flora) that have populations transported as aliens to geographical areas by the direct or indirect, typically inadvertent, action of humans.
(of fauna, or flora) that have populations effectively relying on human transport or action, typically inadvertent, for their propagation.
* Kevin J. Edwards and Ian Ralston:
(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
As an adjective anthropochorous
is (of fauna|or flora) that have populations transported as aliens to geographical areas by the direct or indirect, typically inadvertent, action of humans.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.anthropochorous
English
Adjective
(-)- From their initial habitats, many anthropochorous insects have been transported by humans around the globe and several are now cosmopolitan in distribution.Kevin J. Edwards and Ian Ralston. Scotland After the Ice Age: Environment, Archaeology and History, 8000 BC - AD 1000. isbn=978-0-7486-1736-4