Biotic factors refer to all the living components of an ecosystem. Living organisms are often divided into categories such as producers, consumers and decomposers. A bee pollinating a flower is an ...

Aldo Leopold attempted to push the boundaries of our sense of tribal or community membership further still, to the biotic community. Ecology, he wrote, "simply enlarges the boundaries of the ...

In a study published in Forest Ecology and Management, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and collaborators examined how biotic ...

What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a diverse group that includes jellyfish, hydroids, and sea anemones.

Major areas of research include the nutritional ecology of alpine plants, resource use by plant communities, abiotic and biotic constraints on primary production and nutrient fluxes in alpine ...

The biotic parts of the ecosystem, which include bacteria, flora and fauna, have a complex relationship with the abiotic components - changing one will lead to a change in the other.

A study published in Ecology Letters by researchers from the ... Biologists have long debated whether biotic interactions are stronger in the tropics and on continents compared to temperate ...

I am a plant community ecologist working at the interface of ecosystem, landscape and population biology. My goal is to apply cutting-edge “usable” science to the challenges of restoration, species ...