depredation

n.

劫掠，毁坏；

复数：depredations

1. Most southern towns have suffered from the reckless depredation of the armed gang.
   大多数南方城镇都遭受过这帮武装匪徒的鲁蛮掠夺。
2. Even so, they might not be so vulnerable to human depredation if they did not, like humans, reproduce so slowly.
   尽管如此，如果它们不像人类一样繁殖如此缓慢，它们对人类的掠夺也不会如此无能为力。

Depredation on Artificial Ground Nests: Effects of Edge and Plot Age
Coyote Depredation Control: An Interface between Biology and Management
Limiting Depredation by African Carnivores: The Role of Livestock Husbandry
Depredation Rates and Predators at Artificial Bird Nests in an Unfragmented Northern Hardwoods Forest
Effects of forest fragmentation on depredation of artificial nests.
Effect of Spatial Heterogeneity on Ground-Nest Depredation
Assessing factors related to wolf depredation of cattle in fenced pastures in Montana and Idaho
Paying for Tolerance: Rural Citizens' Attitudes toward Wolf Depredation and Compensation
Effects of Edge Habitat and Nest Characteristics on Depredation of Artificial Nests in Fragmented Australian Tropical Rainforest
Human–wildlife conflicts in a fragmented Amazonian forest landscape: determinants of large felid depredation on livestock