Meaning of New Pangaea | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A notional supercontinent created through global travel and commerce, and the resulting worldwide dispersal of alien species.
2. Novopangaea, a hypothetical future supercontinent.

Examples

“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.”

“According to the Olden paper, in the New Pangaea many species will become more uniform genetically.”

“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.”

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