Urban Food Web Mapper

Urban Food Web Mapper is a web and mobile app that helps ecologists, city planners, NGOs, and engaged citizens map and track local food webs in urban and peri‑urban areas. Users can log species sightings, habitat patches, and observed interactions (who eats whom, pollinates what, competes with what). The platform aggregates this into dynamic food‑web graphs and simple ecological balance indicators, highlighting where key species or functional groups are missing or collapsing. It integrates open biodiversity datasets and remote sensing layers to estimate habitat quality and fragmentation, then overlays citizen data for ground truth. The app does not pretend to be a magic ecological oracle: it offers coarse but actionable signals about trophic balance, invasive pressure, and habitat connectivity, with clear uncertainty ranges. The goal is to give local actors a realistic, data‑driven way to prioritize interventions—like where to restore native plants, control invasives, or create wildlife corridors—without requiring them to be academic ecologists.