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New Pangaea
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en New Pangea
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New Pangaea
en ecology A notional supercontinent created through global travel and commerce, and the resulting worldwide dispersal of alien species.
en March 2001 Evolutionary Ecology Research 3 3 361–367 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279908945_The_four_questions_What_does_the_introduction_of_exotic_species_do_to_diversity Michael L. Rosenzweig The four questions: What does the introduction of exotic species do to diversity? 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.
en https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-new-pangaea The New Pangaea 2003-10-07 Carl Zimmer Science According to the Olden paper, in the New Pangaea many species will become more uniform genetically.
en The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 2014 w:Elizabeth Kolbert Henry Holt and Company 10 on 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.
en geology Novopangaea, a hypothetical future supercontinent.
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en other projected next future supercontinents Pangaea II Pangaea Proxima Pangaea Ultima Novopangæa Neopangaea Amasia
en notional supercontinent resulting from human interference Homogocene Homogenocene Anthropocene Holocene Global Village global village Holocene extinction Anthropocene extinction
en Continents and continental regions