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, ...

Ecosystems are made up of living – or biotic – organisms, like plants and animals;which rely on nonliving – or abiotic – things, like the sun and the weather,to survive and thrive.

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria ...

Plant ecology, terrestrial ecosystem science. Major areas of research include the nutritional ecology of alpine plants, resource use by plant communities, abiotic and biotic constraints on primary ...

How do ecosystems work? videoHow do ecosystems work? This film explains the difference between biotic and abiotic, terrestrial, freshwater and ocean water ecosystems and looks at the effect of ...

Biotic factors refer to all the living components ... feeding back into the system and sustaining the entire ecosystem. Abiotic factors are the nonliving, physical and chemical factors that ...