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New Pangaea
- (ecology) A notional supercontinent created through global travel and commerce, and the resulting worldwide dispersal of alien species.
2001 March, Michael L. Rosenzweig, “The four questions: What does the introduction of exotic species do to diversity?”, in Evolutionary Ecology Research, volume 3, number 3, pages 361–367:The New Pangaea’s threat to global species diversity disappeared because we looked at the species–area curve among provinces. But the same curve predicts the effect of area-loss itself.
2003 October 7, Carl Zimmer, “The New Pangaea”, in Science:According to the Olden paper, in the New Pangaea many species will become more uniform genetically.
(geology) Novopangaea, a hypothetical future supercontinent.
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