defaunation
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defaunation (countable and uncountable, plural defaunations)
- (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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- defaunation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia