Abiotic and Biotic Factors

Biotic Factors: refer to living organisms 

Abiotic Factor: refers to non living organisms like the natural landscapes.

Biotic: All habitat biomes will have characteristic weather systems which effect biotic factors. Defining factors include:

• Where on the globe it is positioned
• Temperature affecting region
• Daylight Hours
• Amount of rainfall 
• Disease risk
• Landscape available 
• Scale of land 
• Windscale 
• Accessibility/ remoteness 
• Bacteria, parasites and fungi in area

Abiotic: Fauna living in habitat biomes may thrive due to natural evolution of adaptions that allow the species we know today to live in these natural habitats. Factors which affect animals living capability include:

• Plant and animal life: What other species are living there and where on the predator, prey scale is that species established? 
• Human interference / activity: Has urbanisation, expansion and deforestation effected this biome yet? What has human interference and activity done to affect the species living her adaption processes?
• Predator and prey relationship: Has the predator, prey balance been affected dramatically due to species extinction leading to over population of a prey species?
• Disease survival: Has a native species been wiped out by a new disease brought into habitat which animal isn't immune to yet?
• Established food cycle and Food Source: When the food chain is disrupted an animals natural food source may be in decrease causing them to find new feed which is less nutritious maybe causing a prey species to go extinct due to population being decreased by more than natural predator species.