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 close bioticLiving elements of an ecosystem, such as plants and animals. factors are interactions associated with living organisms. Competition will occur between organisms in an ecosystem ...

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 ...