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💰 The Economic Value of Pollination

An interactive 3D orchard and value chart showing how pollinator populations and colony health translate into measurable crop economic value across dependency classes.

Biology3DAdvanced60 FPS

A 3D orchard of foraging bees and fruiting trees, paired with a live value chart, shows how pollinator population and colony health turn into measurable agricultural dollars — and how unevenly that value is distributed across crops.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each crop's economic value blends a pollinator-independent baseline with a pollinator-attributable share sized by its dependency ratio. Bees visiting flowers drive fruit set on-screen while the bar chart recomputes each crop's dollar value in real time.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust pollinator population and colony health decline to see fruiting and the value bars respond, tune the market price index, and switch the orchard crop to compare highly dependent almonds against wind-pollinated wheat.

💡 Did You Know?

Because dependency ratios vary so widely by crop, the same colony collapse can wipe out most of an almond orchard's pollinator-linked value while barely denting a wheat field's — which is exactly why economists report pollination value crop-by-crop, not as one flat number.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D orchard and value chart showing how pollinator populations and colony health translate into measurable crop economic value across dependency classes.

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