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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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Energy flow (ecology) - Wikipedia

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    One of the factors that controls primary production is the amount of energy that enters the producer(s), which can be measured using productivity. [12] [13] [1] Only one percent of solar energy enters the producer, the rest bounces off or moves through. [13] Gross primary productivity is the amount of energy the producer actually gets.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Biogeochemical cycle - Wikipedia

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    Generally, reservoirs are abiotic factors whereas exchange pools are biotic factors. Carbon is held for a relatively short time in plants and animals in comparison to coal deposits. The amount of time that a chemical is held in one place is called its residence time or turnover time (also called the renewal time or exit age).

  9. Lake ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    Temperature is an important abiotic factor in lentic ecosystems because most of the biota are poikilothermic, where internal body temperatures are defined by the surrounding system. Water can be heated or cooled through radiation at the surface and conduction to or from the air and surrounding substrate. [ 6 ]