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🧪 Ecology Advanced Ecosystem Restoration Simulation

Restore a fragmented landscape: build wildlife corridors, expand patch area and reintroduce keystone species, and watch a metapopulation biodiversity index recover under a real island-biogeography colonization-extinction model.

Ecology & Conservation Biology2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted

Real ecosystem restoration is a landscape-scale problem: a single replanted patch does little if it stays isolated. This simulator models 16 habitat patches as a metapopulation under the MacArthur–Wilson colonization–extinction framework, and lets you apply three concrete restoration techniques — building wildlife corridors between patches, expanding patch area, and actively reintroducing keystone species — while watching a live biodiversity-recovery index respond. A disturbance-event control lets you test how resilient the restored landscape has become against fire, logging or drought compared to its original fragmented state.

⚙ Under the hood

This simulation allows users to experiment with different ecosystem restoration techniques and their impact on biodiversity recovery. It focuses on ecological processes.

Ecosystem RestorationEcological ModelingDynamic Systems

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