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🏝️ Island Food Web Analysis: 2D Top-Down Lab

2D island ecosystem: three-level food chain with Holling type II predation, enrichment, temperature, pollution and hunting, with click-to-apply disturbances.

Nature & Climate2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategoryNature & Climate

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsClick the island to apply the chosen disturbance (wildfire, predator cull, herbivore introduction, fertiliser, disease) with an adjustable radius; sliders for fertility, water supply, temperature, pollution, grazing rate, hunting pressure and speed; scenario presets, pause, step, reset and baseline comparison.

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⚙ Under the hood

Top-down 2D island ecosystem with a plant-herbivore-predator food chain (Holling type II, Rosenzweig-MacArthur). Click the island to start wildfires, culls, disease or fertiliser pulses, tune fertility, water, temperature, pollution and hunting, and test hypotheses such as the paradox of enrichment against a saved baseline.

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