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🌼 Apiary Biodiversity Monitoring Plan

A 3D apiary meadow where you sweep a survey transect through habitat patches and pollinator species to see how habitat diversity and season drive a live Shannon diversity index.

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A 3D apiary meadow surrounded by five habitat patch types — wildflower meadow, hedgerow, woodland edge, crop margin and wet margin — where a moving survey transect tallies pollinator species as they cross it, building a live species richness and Shannon diversity readout.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Monitoring pollinator diversity is about more than honey yield: it requires tracking which habitats are in bloom, which species they support, and counting visits with a repeatable method like a transect walk. The scene ties habitat diversity and season directly to the mix of pollinators available to be recorded.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a season, set how many habitat patch types are active and how dense the pollinator population is, then watch the glowing transect line sweep the meadow. Species richness and the Shannon index update live as different pollinators cross it.

💡 Did You Know?

Real UK schemes like the Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS) and FIT Counts use exactly this transect-and-tally approach — a fixed line or patch, a fixed time, and a careful species tally — to build long-term biodiversity trend data.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D apiary meadow where you sweep a survey transect through habitat patches and pollinator species to see how habitat diversity and season drive a live Shannon diversity index.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install