An interesting thought, but of course there is much more to it than
botanical gardens. Commercial introductions, seeds in shoes, gardeners,
military usage ... and then of course all the animals, from rats to cane
toads to sheep to anopheles mosquitos ... and let's not forget the
fungi, such as the phytophera now causing havoc. Oliver.
On 14/07/2013 01:05, Russell Seitz wrote:
In writing of " homogocene issues " Oliver Morton has floated a
variation of the theme of the 'anthropocene ' that might take on a
life of its own .
Though Greek-Latin portmanteau words are deservedly suspect , there
has long been a need for an adjective to designate and reify a very
important ecological consequence of the age of exploration-- the
nonchalant homogenization of the biosphere that arose from the
intercontinental exchange of flora via the botanical gardens of the
imperial powers of the 18th and 19th centuries.
By darwin's day, every nation had one , and they collectively
transferred such no-longer-exotics as rhododendrons, eucalypts and
arucaria, to name but a few, together with their symbionts and soil
fauna, from uninhabited regions and obscure refugia to the four
corners of the earth.
There's no getting around it- the Homogocene is to the Anthropocene
as the Pleistocene is to the Holocene
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