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Climate-linked range-change investigations for habitat shift, mismatch, and environmental response.

Range change

Investigate how changing climate conditions shift habitat suitability and organism ranges.

Climate Range Shifter helps learners reason about moving environmental envelopes, adaptation limits, and the mismatch between where organisms are and where suitable conditions move.

Open application Study guide Curriculum alignment About API
Core question What happens when climate conditions move faster than populations or species can track them?
What you can explore Use the application page to explore climate-driven range movement, then connect the results to the guide and curriculum pages.
What to watch for Track moving mismatch between climate and occupancy, and compare cases where organisms keep pace with change to cases where suitable conditions outrun them.
Ways to use it Use the app to compare climate movement, habitat tracking, and adaptation limits, then connect those outcomes to evidence and curriculum use.

Use This Tool

Interactive investigation

Use the application page to explore climate-driven range movement, then connect the results to the guide and curriculum pages.

Concepts to keep in view

  • range shift
  • habitat suitability
  • climate velocity
  • adaptation limits
  • mismatch

Teaching and Inquiry

Good first moves

  • Run a baseline case and compare climate-center movement to range-center movement.
  • Change adaptation rate and explain how mismatch changes over time.

Discussion moves

  • Begin with a simple story about a species whose suitable temperature range is moving geographically.
  • Keep the distinction between environmental change and biological response explicit.

Context and Related Resources

Public evo-edu framing over the legacy climate-range-shifter implementation. Read the fuller about and provenance notes.