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New Pangaea en · PROPN

Meanings

1. A notional supercontinent created through global travel and commerce, and the resulting worldwide dispersal of alien species.
   • By transporting Asian species to North America, and North American species to Australia, and Australian species to Africa, and European species to Antarctica, we are, in effect, reassembling the world into one enormous supercontinent—what biologists sometimes refer to as the New Pangaea. [2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 10, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
   • According to the Olden paper, in the New Pangaea many species will become more uniform genetically. 2003 October 7, Carl Zimmer, “The New Pangaea”, in Science:
   • 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. 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:
2. Novopangaea, a hypothetical future supercontinent.

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Anthropocene (notional supercontinent resulting from human interference) · Global Village (notional supercontinent resulting from human interference) · Homogenocene (notional supercontinent resulting from human interference) · Amasia (other projected next future supercontinents) · Holocene (notional supercontinent resulting from human interference) · Pangaea Ultima (other projected next future supercontinents) · global village (notional supercontinent resulting from human interference) · Novopangæa (other projected next future supercontinents) · Anthropocene extinction (notional supercontinent resulting from human interference) · Pangaea Proxima (other projected next future supercontinents) · Holocene extinction (notional supercontinent resulting from human interference) · Pangaea II (other projected next future supercontinents) · Neopangaea (other projected next future supercontinents) · Homogocene (notional supercontinent resulting from human interference)