Abiotic factors on the fore-reef are less stressful ... Corals provide the substrate for sessile organisms to attach, including algae, sponges, and non-reef building corals (e.g., fire corals ...

Whatever formed the burrows had to be alive, since researchers were able to rule out weathering and abiotic processes. For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball ...

For simplicity, our examples will consider only one abiotic environmental condition — temperature — as temperature similarly impacts all organisms through direct effects on molecules.

Ecosystems are made up of living – or biotic – organisms, like plants and animals;which rely on nonliving – or abiotic – things, like the sun and the weather,to survive and thrive.

Find out about energy transfer, niches and competition in ecosystems. Distribution of organisms Abiotic factors are non-living variables. Biotic factors are the interactions between organisms.

Our research studies the interactions between organisms and their abiotic, ecological and social environment. Insect Ecology and Adaptation - research group studies diverse topics of insect ecology ...