Biotic and Abiotic Factors
Some Abiotic Factors
Abiotic factors are the non living parts of an ecosystem
Most of the abiotic factors are relatively consistent throughout the different locations.
Abiotic factors are the non living parts of an ecosystem
Most of the abiotic factors are relatively consistent throughout the different locations.
- hot and dry summers with cool and moist winters, (semi-arid climate)
- thin and nutrient-poor soils,
- periodic fires,
- various mountain ranges and/or hills
- water
- drought conditions
- the sun
- Some Biotic Factors
Biotic factors are the living parts of an ecosystem.
They include:
- Manzanita, an example of a shrub, blue oak, olive tree, fairy duster (plants)
- San Joaqin kit fox, Giant kangaroo rat, Cactus wren, Iberian lynx, Black-tailed jackrabbit deer, lizards, various snake species (animals)
- Mediterranean Sea coast - Apennine wolf, beech-marten, deer, black
stork, black vulture, dormouse, Egyptian mongoose, great bustard, hare, hedgehog, Iberian lynx,
Spanish Imperial eagle, weasel, wild boar, wild goat, wild sheep, French broom, French duster, - South Africa - Cape sugarbird, sunbirds
- Coast of Chile, South America - Chilean deer, huemul (South Andean deer)
- Coastal Southern California, USA - Rosy boa, Bewick's wren, cactus mouse, California Quail, California striped racer snake, California thrasher, chipmunk, coyote, deer, deer mouse, fox, kangaroo rats, lizards, lynx, mountain lion, northern red diamond rattlesnake, orange-throated whiptail lizard, pocket mouse, jackrabbit, Southern Pacific rattlesnake, spiders, spotted towhee, wood rats, zebra swallowtail butterfly, coastal sage scrubs, chamise,
- Coastal Australia - Australian brush-turkey, gray kangaroo, red-bellied pademelon, scrub-birds, scrub python, tammar (scrub or black-striped wallaby, Atrichornithidae), scrubwren, thornbill, mulga (Acacia anuera) and other Acacia species