recolonization
- noun
- /ˌriːˌkɒlənaɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Specialized
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recolonización
- Recolonization of the forest after the wildfire has been surprisingly quick, with many species returning within a year.
- extinction and recolonization
- recolonization rate
Examples
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Recent beaver recolonization provides an opportunity to examine one of the major discontinuities once present in rivers.
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For example, natural metapopulation dynamics often include local, temporary extinctions balanced by recolonizations via dispersal (Hanski and Gilpin 1991).
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Opportunities to observe recolonization are not common with Pacific salmon, but they do occur.
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A key objective is learning more about how reinfestations or recolonization of a treated area can occur.
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More recently, genetic studies on aquatic insects have shed new light on the mechanisms of recolonization.
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Obviously, recolonization by plant pathogens in the absence of biocontrol agents can have significant negative impacts on crop yield.
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There is little evidence that the recolonization of denuded channel patches is a stochastic recruitment from the potential colonizing pool present in the stream.
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Before recolonization, the valley bottom consisted of a densely forested riparian corridor, with no stream channel visible from the air.
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The fact that small spawning aggregations are regularly observed may reflect a dynamic process of extinction, straying, and recolonization.
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Regardless of the mechanisms involved, the partial turnover of species during the recolonization process suggests that good colonizers may benefit from flood disturbance in streams, if only in the short term.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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4.1
Bringing something or someone back after a time away
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4.6
Making something exist or work again after it stopped
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4.5
Filling an empty place again with people or animals
Antonyms
How Established
Surface Forms
Morphology
recolonization = recolonize (transparent) = re + colon + ize + ation
Adding '-ation' to the verb 'recolonize' straightforwardly forms a noun meaning the act or process of recolonizing.
Etymology
Recolonization comes from re- 'again' and colony 'a group of animals or plants living together'. So in nature it means a species or community starts to live in an area again after it had gone away.