Hyperdepletion

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Excessive depletion uncountable

    "Hilborn and Walters [80 ] developed the idea of hyperdepletion as a mechanism that would explain why catch rates decline more rapidly than fish abundance."

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"Hilborn and Walters [80 ] developed the idea of hyperdepletion as a mechanism that would explain why catch rates decline more rapidly than fish abundance."

Etymology

From hyper- + depletion.

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