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🌿 Biodiversity Monitoring Lab: 2D Habitat Map

Interactive 2D map of a metacommunity with habitat loss, invaders, climate shift and quadrat surveys.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategoryPhysics & Mechanics

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsSliders for dispersal, competition, growth rate, climate shift, invader strength, habitat loss, fragmentation scale, brush radius, quadrat count, detection probability and speed; tools to drag survey quadrats, paint or restore habitat and release an invader; five presets.

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⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 2D map of a five-species metacommunity with Lotka-Volterra competition, a Gaussian niche gradient, habitat loss, climate shift and an invasive generalist. Drag quadrats to survey patches and compare true species shares, Shannon and Simpson diversity and the Chao1 estimate with what the survey actually detects.

biodiversityecologymonitoringhabitat fragmentationinvasive speciesspecies richness

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