What are abiotic factors in an ecosystem?

Answer 1

Well, if the ecosystem loses something abiotic, then nothing serious will happen to the ecosystem, but on the other hand if they lose something biotic, say....a plant. Some of the animals that live there will have no food and the animals that eat those animals won't have food cuz those animals will be dead. and that goes on and on and on. and then everything will die.

Answer 2

Abiotic factors affect an environment in many ways. For instance, if there is too much of abiotic fators in an ecosystem than there is biotic factors, the biotic factors will start to decrease due to the lack of biotic factors (food for predators). Therefore, the biotic factors will become extinct.

Answer 3

*water temperatures at different depths in a pond

*the number of mallard ducks living in a wetlands pondpopulation of red-winged Blackbirds in a cattail marshthe diversity of species of grasses found in a farmer's hayfield

Answer 4

Abiotic factors refer to the non-living things in the ecosystem - the sunlight, rain, wind, snow fall, temperature.

Biotic factors refer to the living things in the ecosystem - animals, plants, bacteria, fungi.

An example of how abiotic factors affect the biotic community

Deserts

The climate (abiotic) is very dry, day time is extremely hot, nigh time extremely cold,very less rainfall. Due to these climatic factors the plants(biotic) do not flourish and there is very less vegetation in deserts.