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What are 10 abiotic and 20 biotic factors in the Amazon Rainforest?
Update : If you can't think of that many, can u please list the ones that u ...show more
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gardengallivant answered 2 years ago
Biotic factors are not simply a list of the living organisms, plant, animal, fungi etc but how they specifically interact. Part of what makes an organism alive is its ability to react & interact with both other living organisms and the abiotic elements of the ecosystem
Intraspecies -The other members of its species and how they interact to forage, to mate and to raise their young.
Interspecies-
Related species (sympatric) that need nearly the same living conditions and nutrients.
Other species as predators/ parasites/ pathogens
Other species as prey/ mutual symbionts/ commensal symbionts
Other species that live in the same region but do not directly interact except through living in the same ecological system.
Abiotic is the soil factors-
Ground water, water table level, soil type, fertility, pH, moisture retention and aeration are effected by landforms (plateau, mountain, valley) and their slope (shallow< 3% to steep > 10%).
Climate variables that impact soil qualities. Ambient temperature, days of cloud cover versus days of sun for amount of sunlight and its influence that create patterns of rainfall, humidity, dew point plus first & last frost dates for growing/dormancy or rainy/dry seasonality. Typical wind speeds and their direction effect how soil erodes and is deposited as much as water flow. Latitude, altitude and how this effects the annual season. Altitude also alters how much UV exposure an organism receives. --
