User:Disgustedorite/Biodiversity

A quick look at the size of ecosystem pages...


 * Week 1: 510 bytes
 * Week 2: 881 bytes
 * Week 3: 1,150 bytes
 * Week 4: 2,003 bytes
 * Week 5: 3,754 bytes
 * Week 6: 4,944 bytes
 * Week 7: 8,673 bytes
 * Week 8: 11,862 bytes
 * Week 9: 13,239 bytes
 * Week 10: 19,848 bytes
 * Week 11: 26,039 bytes
 * Week 12: 27,848 bytes
 * Week 13: 29,216 bytes
 * Week 14: 33,033 bytes
 * Week 15: 24,885 bytes
 * Week 16: 34,250 bytes
 * Week 17: 44,228 bytes
 * Week 18: 95,408 bytes
 * Week 19: 98,260 bytes
 * Week 20: 96,559 bytes
 * Week 21: 79,072 bytes
 * Week 22: 38,887 bytes
 * Week 23: 72,266 bytes
 * Week 24: 75,126 bytes
 * Week 25: 92,931 bytes
 * Week 26: 102,938 bytes

When put onto a graph, the results should roughly show the biodiversity of Sagan 4 as it changed over time:

Interestingly, only the gamma ray burst and the ice age / snowball event show up as major dips. Life bounced back from other mass extinctions too quickly for anything noticeable. I hope to make another chart someday that analyzes biodiversity by species count and generation-by-generation. Here, I show progress on the species count per week version (up to week 19):

Extinction events should be a bit more visible this time, as this goes by sheer species count. Notably, it's clearly shown Sagan 4 did not fully recover from the gamma ray burst disaster in Week 15 until Week 17. As expected, there is another dip in Week 19 from the ice comet, though despite the major floral turnover it caused it was actually a proportionally less deadly event. Biodiversity recovered from the ice comet much faster than it had from the gamma ray burst, as is to be expected of a much less significant event.