Definition of "overharvesting" []

• Past participle of overharvest (verb)
• Excessive harvesting (noun)

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• "In addition, growing pressures from drivers such as overharvesting, climate change, invasive species, and nutrient loading push ecosystems toward thresholds that they might otherwise not encounter."
• "Globally, the equilibrium number of plant species is projected to be reduced by roughly 10 – 15% as the result of habitat loss alone over the period of 1970 to 2050 in the MA scenarios (low certainty), and otherfactors such as overharvesting, invasive species, pollution, and climate change will further increase the rate of extinction."
• "After decades of overharvesting of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay and many fruitless efforts to replenish them, scientists have re-established a significant population of the shellfish along the Virginia shore."