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EcoWar is a realtime ecosystem simulator which allows you to interact with the plant and animal species present as well as the environment they live in.

EcoWar is a simple ecosystem simulator that allows the user to learn about how different plant and animal species interact with each other. By observing species interactions the user can gain an understanding of important environmental concepts such as biodiversity and evolution. EcoWar can be used as a passive educational tool by allowing the user to only observe what is happening in the environment or it can be used as an active educational medium by requiring the user to interact with the environment to achieve an objective. Included are eleven scenarios which allow the user to explore many aspects concerning the interaction of species and ecosystem management. Each scenario comes with a worksheet which the user can work through to gain the most out of the lesson. These worksheets can be printed out and filled in while the user is working with EcoWar. While the simulator is running the user can change the environment and evolve new species. The user can change the average temperature across the landscape making a warmer or cooler climate. They can also change the amount of nutrients available in the soil of the landscape. Such changes will be reflected in the behaviour of the plant and animal species present. The user can also evolve new species of plants and animals from existing species. The evolution process involves creating a new species which inherits the attributes of its parent species. The user can then modify the new species attributes to a limited extent. This new species then has similar properties to its parent species but with a few modifications which, if the user has chosen wisely, makes for a better adapted species. The user can also create their own ecosystems which allow them to understand the complexity of even simple ecosystems. By creating their own ecosystems the user also gains an appreciation of how fragile an ecosystem can be and how only slight changes in the environment can have drastic effects.

Minimum requirements: 8 Mb RAM Pentium processor or compatible 8-bit ( 256 colour ) graphics mode 640 x 480 screen resolution Program Type : Shareware content_stop

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