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Establishment and development of settlements by people or animals
Colonization or colonisation is defined as "the act or process of sending people to live in and govern another country". The term "colonization" is sometimes used synonymously with the word "settlement". Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ColonizationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Tumor-resident intracellular microbiota promotes metastatic colonization in breast cancerInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Wealth of NationsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A new method which gives an objective measure of colonization of roots by vesicular—arbuscular mycorrhizal fungiCited 3,253 times
- Go sideways: Zionism as settler colonialismA closely related topic
- Go sideways: ZionismA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The process of establishing a colony.
Noun The process of colonizing or taking over.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A new method which gives an objective measure of colonization of roots by vesicular—arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Glacial history and colonization of Europe by the blue tit Parus caeruleus
Comparative phylogeography and postglacial colonization routes in Europe
Post-glacial re-colonization of European biota
Postnatal microbial colonization programs the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal system for stress response in mice
Metastasis: from dissemination to organ-specific colonization
Plant growth-promoting bacteria in the rhizo- and endosphere of plants: Their role, colonization, mechanisms involved and prospects for utilization
Metastatic colonization by circulating tumour cells
🆕 Influential since 2022
Tumor-resident intracellular microbiota promotes metastatic colonization in breast cancer
Microbiota-mediated colonization resistance: mechanisms and regulation
Effects of Rhizosphere Colonization by Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria on Potato Plant Development and Yield
Lymph node colonization induces tumor-immune tolerance to promote distant metastasis
Microbial colonization and degradation of marine microplastics in the plastisphere: A review
📚 Books worth reading
The Wealth of NationsAdam Smith · 1776
Red MarsKim Stanley Robinson · 1992
Colon classificationS. R. Ranganathan · 1892
The scramble for Africa, 1876-1912Thomas Pakenham, Thomas Pakenham · 1990
The English in Ireland in the eighteenth centuryJames Anthony Froude · 1872
Consciencism; philosophy and ideology for decolonization and developmentKwame Nkrumah · 1964
Mickey7Edward Ashton · 2022
ManifoldStephen Baxter · 1999
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