savannization
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savannization (usually uncountable, plural savannizations)
- Conversion to savanna (typically of forest as a result of fire).
- 1995, Danilo J. Anton, Diversity Globalization, and the Ways of Nature:
- In Africa, the “savannization” process started very early.
- 2011, Mark Bush, Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change:
- Increasing soil temperature and the reduction of the ecosystem's capacity to retain carbon could eventually force the Amazon through a gradual process of savannization.