defaunation

English

Etymology

de- +‎ fauna +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

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Noun

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).

Related terms

• refaunation

Further reading

• defaunation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia