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Examples of overexploit
overexploit
Introduced predators and herbivores, for example, can overexploit native flora and fauna.
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It is not just humans that overexploit their resources.
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The problem is we can't overexploit them.
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This drives the local population to overexploit the more marginal lands and to erode areas of virgin landscape such as forests and wetlands.
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In turn, the unchecked prey can then overexploit their own food resources until population numbers dwindle, possibly to the point of extinction.
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Polar bears, humpback whales and bald eagles have suffered from the cumulative effects of single decisions to overexploit or convert habitats.
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Happiest while controlling a mobile force directly under his own eyes he was liable to overexploit immediate success without sufficient thought for the future.
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- Exploit excessively; "We should not overexploit our natural resources"
- (overexploitation) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns
- (overexploitation) excessive consumption of a renewable natural resource at a rate that cannot be maintained due to a dwindling reproductive population
- (overexploitation) Wasteful killing of a species, usually by hunting or poaching, to well beyond the point at which population levels can be sustained.
- (Over-exploitation) Use of / harvesting of an environmental resource at a rate which exceeds the natural growth / regeneration rate. This might then result in an organism / resource being (locally) extinct.
- (Over-Exploitation) Amphibian populations in some parts of the world suffer decline because they are captured for the pet trade or are harvested for human consumption.
- (over-exploitation) (n.): improper and excessive use leading to the degradation of that which is used (land, water, vegetation). Back
- (overexploitation) Harvesting by humans of wild plants or animals at rates exceeding the ability of populations of those species to rebound.
