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  2. Abiotic component - Wikipedia

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    Humans can make or change abiotic factors in a species' environment. For instance, fertilizers can affect a snail's habitat, or the greenhouse gases which humans utilize can change marine pH levels. Abiotic components include physical conditions and non-living resources that affect living organisms in terms of growth, maintenance, and ...

  3. Abiotic stress - Wikipedia

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    Abiotic stress is the negative impact of non-living factors on the living organisms in a specific environment. [1] The non-living variable must influence the environment beyond its normal range of variation to adversely affect the population performance or individual physiology of the organism in a significant way.

  4. Environmental factor - Wikipedia

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    An environmental factor, ecological factor or eco factor is any factor, abiotic or biotic, that influences living organisms. [1] Abiotic factors include ambient temperature , amount of sunlight , air, soil, water and pH of the water soil in which an organism lives.

  5. Ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    [2]: 458 The biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Ecosystems are controlled by external and internal factors. External factors such as climate, parent material which forms the soil and topography, control the overall structure of an ecosystem but are not themselves influenced by the ecosystem.

  6. Environmental gradient - Wikipedia

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    The abiotic factors that environmental gradients consist of can have a direct ramifications on organismal survival. Generally, organismal distribution is tied to those abiotic factors, but even an environmental gradient of one abiotic factor yields insight into how a species distribution might look.

  7. Outline of ecology - Wikipedia

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    Arctic ecology – Study of the relationships between biotic and abiotic factors in the arctic – Polar ecology – Relationship between plants and animals and a polar environment – Tropical ecology – Study of the relationships between the biotic and abiotic components of the tropics.

  8. Forest pathology - Wikipedia

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    Fire, whether caused by humans or lightning, and related abiotic factors also affect the health of forest. The effects of man often alter a forest's predisposition to damage from both abiotic and biotic effects. For example, soil properties may be altered by heavy machinery. Other abiotic factors

  9. Climatic adaptation - Wikipedia

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    Climatic adaptation refers to adaptations of an organism that are triggered due to the patterns of variation of abiotic factors that determine a specific climate.Annual means, seasonal variation and daily patterns of abiotic factors are properties of a climate where organisms can be adapted to.