defaunationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

de- +‎ fauna +‎ -ation

名詞

defaunation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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).

関連する語

• refaunation

Further reading

• defaunation on Wikipedia.