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“biotic factors”
1. An organic variable affecting an ecosystem: One biotic factor relates to the changing population of elephants and its effect on the African savanna.
2. A circumstance created by a living thing or any living component within an environment in which the action of the organism affects the life of another organism, for example, when a predator consumes its prey in a quail’s environment: The biotic factors include the living elements of the environment, such as the quail’s prey: insects, seeds, etc.; and the quail’s predators, the coyotes.
2. A circumstance created by a living thing or any living component within an environment in which the action of the organism affects the life of another organism, for example, when a predator consumes its prey in a quail’s environment: The biotic factors include the living elements of the environment, such as the quail’s prey: insects, seeds, etc.; and the quail’s predators, the coyotes.
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