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 factors refer to all the living components of an ecosystem ... oxygen in water bodies is a critical abiotic factor that affects the survival of aquatic species. A drop in dissolved oxygen ...

Abiotic close abioticNon-living elements of an ecosystem, such as climate, temperature, water, and soil type. factors are non-living environmental factors that can affect the organisms in ecosystems.

Coastal vegetated ecosystems are highly productive, act as biodiversity hotspots and have an important role in the carbon cycle. They often consist of macrophytes, i.e. aquatic plants and algae. Many ...