What is a biotic and abiotic factor for deserts?

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Biotic Factors
Biotic, meaning of or related to life, are living factors. Plants, animals, fungi, protist and bacteria are all biotic or living factors

Abiotic Factors
Abiotic, meaning not alive, are nonliving factors that affect living organisms. Environmental factors such habitat (pond, lake, ocean, desert, mountain) or weather such as temperature, cloud cover, rain, snow, hurricanes, etc. are abiotic factors.

Biotic factors are, in entirety, anything that affects a living organism that is itself alive. Such things include animals which consume the organism in question, or the food that the organism consumes. As opposed to abiotic factors (non-living components of an organism's environment, such as temperature, light, moisture, air currents, etc.), biotic factors are the living components of an organisms environment, such as predators and prey.

For example, if one were to examine a desert ecosystem for biotic and abiotic factors, one would observe things like the extreme temperatures of the day and night, the fast winds, the heavy amount of sunlight, and scarcity of water as abiotic, or NON-living factors in the environment. One would observe that for a quail living in the desert, living elements like the quail's prey (insects, seeds, etc.) and predators (coyotes, sparrow hawk, gold eagles, etc.) make up the biotic factors of the quail's environment.




Biotic means something that is living. Biotic is the opposite of abiotic which means non-living.



If a single factor is changed, perhaps by pollution or natural phenomenon, the whole system could be altered. For example, humans can alter environments through farming or irrigating. While we usually cannot see what we are doing to various ecosytems, the impact is being felt all over. For example, acid rain in certain regions has resulted in the decline of fish population.

Abiotic Factors
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Biotic factors are living factors in deserts: lizards, snakes, cacti, owls, ...

Abiotic factors are nonliving ( and never-living) factors in deserts: temperature, precipitation, wind, light, sand, rocks, ....