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Every Ecosystem Includes Both Living and Nonliving Factors.: Key Concept

An ecosystem consists of biotic factors (living organisms like plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria) and abiotic factors (nonliving elements such as moisture, temperature, sunlight, wind, and soil). Changes in one factor can impact many others, and biodiversity reflects the variety of living things in an ecosystem, with rain forests exhibiting high biodiversity but facing threats from human activities. Keystone species play a crucial role in maintaining ecosystem stability by forming complex webs of life, as exemplified by beavers that create habitats for various species through their dam-building activities.

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Every Ecosystem Includes Both Living and Nonliving Factors.: Key Concept

An ecosystem consists of biotic factors (living organisms like plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria) and abiotic factors (nonliving elements such as moisture, temperature, sunlight, wind, and soil). Changes in one factor can impact many others, and biodiversity reflects the variety of living things in an ecosystem, with rain forests exhibiting high biodiversity but facing threats from human activities. Keystone species play a crucial role in maintaining ecosystem stability by forming complex webs of life, as exemplified by beavers that create habitats for various species through their dam-building activities.

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13.

2 Biotic and Abiotic Factors


KEY CONCEPT
Every ecosystem includes both living and nonliving
factors.
13.2 Biotic and Abiotic Factors
An ecosystem includes both biotic and abiotic factors.
• Biotic factors are living things.
– plants
– animals
plants
– fungi
– bacteria
13.2 Biotic and Abiotic Factors

• Abiotic factors are nonliving things.


– moisture
– temperature
sunlight
– wind
– sunlight
– soil
moisture
13.2 Biotic and Abiotic Factors
Changing one factor in an ecosystem can affect many
other factors.
• Biodiversity is the assortment, or variety, of living things in
an ecosystem.
• Rain forests have more biodiversity than other locations in
the world, but are threatened by human activities.
13.2 Biotic and Abiotic Factors

• A keystone species is a species that has an unusually large


effect on its ecosystem.

keystone
Fig. Like a keystone
that holds up an arch,
a keystone species
holds together a
dynamic ecosystem.
13.2 Biotic and Abiotic Factors

• Keystone species form and maintain a complex web of life.

creation of
wetland
ecosystem

increased waterfowl
Fig. Beavers are a Population

keystone species.
By constructing keystone species
increased
dams, beavers fish nesting sites
create an ecosystem population for birds
used by a wide
variety of species.

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