defaunation

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Etymology[edit]

de- +‎ fauna +‎ -ation

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Noun[edit]

defaunation (countable and uncountable, plural defaunations)

  1. (ecology) The loss of animals from a habitat
    Coordinate term: deforestation
    • 2016, Victoria Reyes-García, Aili Pyhälä, Hunter-gatherers in a Changing World, Springer, →ISBN, page 79:
      For this reason, the symbolic dimensions of defaunation can be of direct relevance to any initiative aiming for sustainable wildlife management and biodiversity conservation in areas inhabited by hunter-gatherers (Franzen 2005; Lu 2001).

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