The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...

The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...

Biotic and abiotic factors are all the living and non-living components of an ecosystem. Biotic factors include not only living things but interactions between organisms, such as predation ...

Abiotic components, on the other hand, influence the distribution and abundance of biotic components by shaping their habitats and determining their physiological processes. Examples of biotic ...

For example, a tomato plant that is wilting or dying could be suffering from a biotic disease, such as root rot caused by several different water mold fungi, or an abiotic disease, such as drought ...

Robert Modest Byamungu, Matthias Schleuning, Stefan W. Ferger, Maria Helbig-Bonitz, Andreas Hemp, Alexander Neu, Anna Vogeler, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Marco Tschapka, Jörg Albrecht, Abiotic and biotic ...