Solver — Ecosystem Solver

1 Producers

2 Species matrix

3 Food chain

Tip: click any step above to jump to it. Skipping ahead is allowed — the solver works with whatever you've entered.

Step 1 — Enter producers

Add the producer species from your case. For each, give the calories provided and the environmental range (min/max depth and temperature). The solver groups producers by identical environment and finds the cell with the highest total calories.

Producer name	Calories provided	Min depth/elev	Max depth/elev	Min temp	Max temp

Optimal starting location & producer set

Highest calorie sum

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Min depth / elev

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Max depth / elev

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Min temp

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Max temp

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Selected producers (sorted by calories, desc)

#	Producer	Calories provided	Role

Producers locked in. Proceed to Step 2 to build the species matrix.

Step 2 — Build the species matrix

Your locked-in producers are pre-filled at the top (calories required = 0). Add the remaining species with calories provided and required, then mark which species eat which in the matrix below. Click a cell to toggle a "×" (predator row eats prey column).

0 species

Species	Calories provided	Calories required	Type

Who eats whom

× = predator eats prey Locked producers (row) Self-eating disabled

Step 1 — Enter producers

Optimal starting location & producer set

Selected producers (sorted by calories, desc)

Step 2 — Build the species matrix

Who eats whom

Step 3 — Optimum food chain

Optimum food chain (top = producer)

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