| Translocation is considered controversial by some scientists because of the risk that relocated species could overpopulate a new area and cause local organisms to become extinct. |
| The whole idea is that nature needs a method for rapidly ridding itself of dysfunctional species that overpopulate and absorb resources too rapidly. |
| But it's also enabled us to overpopulate and pollute in a way that we never could have managed when we were wandering around the African savannah. |
| Unfortunately the plan works rather too well, and the mice begin to overpopulate the church. |
| They mature too quickly either to train them or get to know them properly, begin having babies of their own within minutes of birth, and rapidly overpopulate the ship. |
| She does not speak in the tough vernacular of the grizzled guys who overpopulate her field. |
