satyrizations

Noun

satyrization (usually uncountable, plural satyrizations)

1. (British, English, Oxford, US, usually) The situation where interspecific (interspecies) mating fails to produce hybrids and thus reduces the fitness of the species involved.
   • A "satyr" is any male that successfully mates and reduces the reproductive success of a female of a different species or population. We sought to model the interaction of such potentially intermating species that are initially isolated in space but come to occupy overlapping niches. [...] Species...1986 October, J. M. C. Ribeiro, A[ndrew] Spielman, “The Satyr Effect: A Model Predicting Parapatry and Species Extinction”, in The American Naturalist, volume 128, number 4, Chicago, Ill.: University...