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🧩 Habitat Fragmentation & the Species-Area Law (2D)

2D species-area / habitat-fragmentation lab: the real power-law S = c·A^z drives a live habitat map you fragment into N equal-area patches, revealing the predicted extinction debt from splitting a reserve without changing its total area.

Ecology & Conservation Biology2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

This 2D companion to the 3D "Global Biodiversity" ecosystem zooms out from population dynamics to biogeography: the real power-law species-area relationship S = c·A^z drives a habitat map you can fragment, on the left, into any number of equal-total-area patches, while a live curve on the right plots predicted species count against fragmentation level and marks the gap — the extinction debt — between keeping a reserve whole and splitting it into many small, isolated pieces at the same total area.

⚙ Under the hood

2D species-area / habitat-fragmentation lab with the power-law S = c·A^z, a live fragmenting habitat map and a species-vs-fragmentation curve showing the predicted extinction debt.

species-area relationshiphabitat fragmentationextinction debtbiogeographySLOSSconservation

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install