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🏜️ Forest-to-Desert Ecotone Lab: Rain Shadow, Lapse Rate and Biome Boundaries

Explore a model valley from snowy mountains and forest through wetland and grassland to desert: change warming and wind moisture and watch the rain shadow, aridity ratio and biome boundaries move.

Ecology & Conservation Biology3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🟠 Blender

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Explore a model valley from snowy mountains and forest through wetland and grassland to desert: change warming and wind moisture and watch the rain shadow, aridity ratio and biome boundaries move.

BiomesEcotoneRain ShadowLapse RateHoldridge Life ZonesClimate ChangeThree.jsBlender

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