Application

Climate Range Shifter

Use a direct responsive workbench to compare moving climate centers, biological tracking, and occupancy loss without leaving the public evo-edu surface.

Learner guide Teacher guide About and provenance Open legacy prototype

First challenge Run one baseline case, then lower adaptation rate and compare how quickly mismatch and occupancy change.

Key habit Keep environmental change and biological response separate so you do not smuggle adaptation into every climate story.

Legacy memorialized The earlier placeholder route remains available as a legacy prototype while this direct workbench replaces the iframe workflow.

Run Actions

Controls you will use first

Keep run, save, export, and import actions separate from the ecological parameters so the first useful experiment is obvious.

Import Settings

Current Run Status

Final mismatch 0.0

Final occupancy 1.00

Climate center 50.0

Range center 50.0

Try This First

Step 1 Run the defaults and watch the climate center pull ahead of the range center.

Step 2 Lower adaptation rate and see whether occupancy falls sooner.

Step 3 Ask whether the new pattern reflects tracking success, lag, or failure to keep pace.

Main Display

Climate movement and biological tracking

The orange line is the moving climate center. The blue line is the range center. Watch the distance between them grow or shrink as you change response rate and habitat breadth.

Climate center Range center

What to notice Mismatch grows when the climate center moves faster than the range can track.

Compare mechanisms Change one factor at a time so you can separate dispersal/adaptation limits from climate velocity.

Notebook links Adaptation Natural Selection

Generation snapshots

Interpretation prompt

Run the baseline case first, then compare one changed parameter.

Settings

Climate and response parameters

These values control where the climate starts, how quickly it moves, and how effectively the population or species tracks changing conditions.