The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repopulation \Re*pop`u*la"tion\ (r?*p?p`?*l?"sh?n), n. The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.
Wiktionary
n. The act of repopulate an area, especially with a species that might otherwise die out
Wikipedia
Repopulation is the phenomenon of increasing the numerical size of human inhabitants or organisms of a particular species after they had almost gone extinct.
Usage examples of "repopulation".
They were calling the grad-students accepted into the wolf repopulation program.
Ironically enough, however, repopulation of the area was largely the result of the hundreds of Zentraedi warships that crashed there after the firing of the Grand Cannon.
Paralleling much of what we said earlier in this book, he was skeptical that natural selection had the ability to do what was claimed of it and offered evidence that biological change occurred in sudden epochs of repopulation by radically new designs, triggered by the occurrence of global-scale catastrophes.
Tlacotzin and his companion nobles led a train of porters again laden with gold and many other riches—not intended to provide for a repopulation of the unfortunate city, but for the cajoling of Cortés.
Its “Sinification” involved the drastic homogenization of a huge region in an ancient melting pot, the repopulation of tropical Southeast Asia, and the exertion of a massive influence on Japan, Korea, and possibly even India.
Almost ready for repopulation, he thought, in another hundred years the radiation will be gone, and we will come back.