colonized

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In California in the early 1960s, survivors from around Big Sur recolonized Monterey Bay, feasting on urchins that eat kelp and revitalizing the kelp forest.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2024

"After a few decades, in areas the sea otters had recolonized, salt marshes and creekbanks were becoming more stable again, despite rising sea levels, increased water flow from inland sources, and greater pollution," Hughes said.

From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2024

Wolves recolonized this area over the past 15 years, and researchers, land managers and the public want to know how the presence of wolves is affecting the ecosystem.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2022

But now, thanks to the unpredictable hyperactivity of New York real estate, these neighborhoods of beautiful cast-iron buildings and discreet foreign oligarchs are being quietly recolonized by the people who put them on the map.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2017

Even as the Pacific advanced upon Beringia, these geologists said, plant and animal life recolonized the ice-free corridor.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann