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Mountain Escalator to Extinction (2D)

2D cross-section lab: warm a cone-shaped mountain over simulated years and watch an alpine species' suitable elevation band get pushed upslope — habitat area and population shrinking until the band is squeezed off the summit.

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

This 2D companion drives the same elevational-band mechanic as the 3D version through a plain cross-section view: temperature falls with elevation at a fixed lapse rate, so the species' suitable band — sandwiched between two isotherms — shifts upslope as the mountain warms. Because the mountain is cone-shaped, the land area inside that band shrinks the higher it sits, and a logistic population model tracks the shrinking carrying capacity in real time until the band is pushed past the summit.

⚙ Under the hood

Canvas2D cross-section of a warming cone-shaped mountain: a fixed lapse rate pushes the species' isotherm-bounded elevation band upslope, cone geometry shrinks its habitat area, and a logistic model tracks the population toward summit extinction.

elevational zonationalpine speciesclimate warminghabitat squeezelogistic growthsummit extinction

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