hyperdepletion
hyperdepletion noun: excessive depletion.
Noun
hyperdepletion (uncountable)
- Excessive depletion
- Hilborn and Walters [80 ] developed the idea of hyperdepletion as a mechanism that would explain why catch rates decline more rapidly than fish abundance.2015 August 15, “Empirical Evidence for Species-Specific Export of Fish Naïveté from a No-Take Marine Protected Area in a Coastal Recreational Hook and Line Fishery”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin of hyperdepletion
From hyper- + depletion.
Words that rhyme with hyperdepletion
- accretion
- completion
- venetian
- Grecian
- concretion
- deletion
- Lutetian
- Rhaetian
- excretion
- Phoenician
- secretion
- bicompletion
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Questions about hyperdepletion
- What does hyperdepletion mean?
- Hyperdepletion means excessive depletion.
- What part of speech is hyperdepletion?
- Hyperdepletion is a noun.
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