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🪸 Reef Phase Shift: Sea Urchin Grazing, Macroalgae Hysteresis and Coral Recovery Lab

A 3D coral reef driven by a coral-macroalgae-turf model: change fish and urchin grazing, trigger hurricanes or urchin disease and find the tipping points where the reef flips to algae and why it does not flip back.

Ecology & Conservation Biology3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🟠 Blender
reef-phase-shift-sea-urchin-grazing-macroalgae-hysteresis-coral-recovery-lab ↗ Open standalone
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A 3D coral reef driven by a coral-macroalgae-turf model: change fish and urchin grazing, trigger hurricanes or urchin disease and find the tipping points where the reef flips to algae and why it does not flip back.

Coral reefHysteresisSea urchinEcology

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

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