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Questions about indigenous plants and anecophytes
Author(s) -
Scholz Hildemar
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/25065917
Subject(s) - taxon , alien , indigenous , biology , ecology , habitat , population , demography , sociology , census
Anecophytes are anthropogenic taxa which evolved under the influence of human activities in man‐made habitats. Like other taxa they can be divided into indigenous (natives) and non‐indigenous (aliens). Included in the anecophytes are cultigenic taxa and the hybrids between alien taxa as well as between alien and native taxa. They are native to the area where they originated. Proposed is the new term “cryptic anecophyte” for anthropogenic taxa with altered genetic structures (genotypes) not affecting the phenotypes.