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New Pangaea

New Pangaea proper noun: a notional supercontinent created through global travel and commerce, and the resulting worldwide dispersal of alien species.

Proper noun

New Pangaea

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

Forms of New Pangaea

alternative formNew Pangea

Questions about New Pangaea

What does New Pangaea mean?
New Pangaea means a notional supercontinent created through global travel and commerce, and the resulting worldwide dispersal of alien species.
What part of speech is New Pangaea?
New Pangaea is a proper noun.

Words near New Pangaea in the dictionary

  1. new paisa
  2. new paisas
  3. New Palestine
  4. New Paltz
  5. New Panamax
  6. New Pangaea
  7. New Pangea
  8. New Panggangan
  9. New Paris
  10. New Park
  11. New Parks

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