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Definition of Overexploited
1. overexploit [v] - See also: overexploit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overexploited
Literary usage of Overexploited
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Agrodiversity: Learning from Farmers Across the World by Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons, Muriel Brookfield (2003)
"... species per hectare found in managed and unmanaged young and mature forests
Table 3.9 Changes in population of endangered and overexploited species from ..."
2. Agricultural and Fisheries Policies in Mexico: Recent Achievements by Oecd (2006)
"Of the 54 stocks for which stock assessments were available in 2004, 11 stocks
are assessed as being overexploited while 34 stocks are fully exploited. ..."
3. Liberalising Fisheries Markets: Scope and Effects by OECD Staff, Committee for Fisheries (2003)
"Species A might become overexploited, or more overexploited than before, while
Species B would become less exploited. The result for long term supply would ..."
4. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"Some of her warmest admirers now admit that she has been overexploited. It is
hardly necessary to say that Dr. Montessori herself had no part in and ..."
5. Introduction to Political Science: A Treatise on the Origin, Nature by James Wilford Garner (1910)
"... which in recent years has been overexploited by a certain class of writers,
mostly French, who have attempted to explain social phenomena and interpret ..."
6. The Nature-study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-movement to by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1903)
"... method " and its life will be smothered; now and then it will be overexploited;
with many persons it will be a fad: but the spirit will live. ..."
7. The Cornerstone of Development: Integrating Environmental, Social, and by Jamie Schnurr, Susan Holtz (1998)
"Environmentalists stress that nonrenewable resources are finite; that renewable
resources can be (and often are) overexploited, leading to collapse; ..."
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