hyperdepletion

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noun

Excessive depletion

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Meanings

nounhyperdepletion (uncountable)
  1. uncountableExcessive 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

From hyper- + depletion.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with hyperdepletion

completiondeletionsecretionvenetianexcretionaccretionGrecianPhoenicianPeloponnesianundeletionconcretionbicompletionLutetianoligarchic accretionRhaetian
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APA

hyperdepletion. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyperdepletion

MLA

“hyperdepletion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyperdepletion. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hyperdepletion,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyperdepletion.

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