Pseudocolonization
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Something which resembles or appears to be colonization (in various senses), but is really not. countable, uncountable
"We have been working for the past 18 years on a taxonomic revision of the ants of Puerto Rico, and this fact has enabled us to avoid erroneously recording extinctions and colonizations because of misidenti®cations. Species misidentifications could result in pseudoextinctions and pseudocolonization, while the number of species does not change (in perfect agreement with the MacArthur and Wilson model)."
Example
More examples"We have been working for the past 18 years on a taxonomic revision of the ants of Puerto Rico, and this fact has enabled us to avoid erroneously recording extinctions and colonizations because of misidenti®cations. Species misidentifications could result in pseudoextinctions and pseudocolonization, while the number of species does not change (in perfect agreement with the MacArthur and Wilson model)."
Etymology
From pseudo- + colonization.
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