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Ecology

the idea that losses to one mortality cause, such as predation or harvest, are offset by reduced losses to other causes.

In ecology, compensatory mortality refers to the idea that losses to one mortality cause, such as predation or harvest, are offset by reduced losses to other causes. This meaning comes from Errington (1946) in The Quarterly Review of Biology.[1]

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References

Errington, P. L. (1946). Predation and Vertebrate Populations. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 21(2), 144-177. https://doi.org/10.1086/395220

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